Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Lawn, near St. Joseph, Mo. He was born in Ringgold, Mo., Jan. 4, 1851, and after a public school education, entered St. Louis University. After graduation he entered the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1874 with high honors. He afterward traveled extensively in Europe and other foreign countries, finally settling down to practice law in St. Joseph. He was nominated for Congress in 1892 and elected by a large majority. At the expiration of his term, he refused a re-nomination and retired from public life, living at Ayr Lawn until the time of his death...
Should not the janitors, then, be instructed to remove all these private advertisements? The task of keeping the boards clear of such foreign matter would not be great, for those who place it there would soon grow weary of supplying the janitors with cardboard, when once it was understood that their placards would not be allowed to remain...
...Harvard Christian Association. Foreign Missions Meeting. Phillips Brooks House, 2d floor, east...
...Harvard Christian Association. Foreign Missions Meeting. Phillips Brooks House, 2d floor, east...
...Greek literature. They have found themselves in college with but a slight knowledge of Greek and with nothing offered them but courses arranged with a view to technical scholarship. As the result they have naturally been appalled and disheartened. Instead of supplementing their courses in modern literature, English or foreign, with a course in that literature which may almost be called its starting point, they have gone on continually reminded of their ignorance and as continually turned back by the difficulties in the way of enlightening it. Hitherto they have been made to feel that they must be technical...