Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...event which struck terror into many a wavering heart. But the thought that Washington and the great American leaders have trodden here, that near its walls midnight parties have assembled, and in its sight friend and foe have marshalled, lend to it an interest beyond any admiration its foreign aspect and solitary picturesqueness can command...
There is little doubt but that if the "sideshows" were abolished, greater interest would be centred on the University race. All these auxiliaries, except the Freshman and single-scull races, are foreign to the real object, of little interest in themselves, and their connection with the University race might be very fitly broken...
...Gibbs, Lovering, Cooke, Shaler, Trowbridge, and Jackson are all at work in their several departments making scientific researches, and writing up the results they have obtained. Motley has been elected a member of the French Academy; Professor Newcomb, a graduate of our Scientific School, has received honors from four foreign societies; while Dr. Gould, another astronomer, has been elected a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg...
...European dress has his idolatrous imitators." Shall we not rise at once, then, like one man, and put down these evil influences? I should suggest that the first steps to be taken would be to assemble a congress of "Pocos" in the Yard immediately, divest ourselves then of all foreign habiliments, deliver them over to those whose minds are fitted only for such shackles, and oblige them at once to remove what is given them from the land. Then let us collect in a large heap that peculiarly formed furniture which exerts such a debasing effect on the only great...
...certain geographical sense, so to speak, but hardly in any rational sense, and has the effect of exaggerating and perpetuating those false issues which we now seek to avoid. The mere fact, however, that given sections of a class should hold caucus meetings has nothing in it foreign to the purest democracy, nor even that they aim at securing positions for their candidates among the class officers, provided that they secure their ends by presenting a strong ticket, and not by cracking a society whip over the heads of the recalcitrant. In point of fact, this seems...