Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...dusky chambers of ignorance and into the drearier darkness of a belief in merely material prosperity. It is in performing this duty that "the teachers shall shine." Coming as I do from the oldest College in the country to the newest, I feel myself in some sort an accredited ambassador from the Past, the representative of tradition, the pledged advocated of those seemingly unprofitable studies, which yet have their incalculable use in liberating the mind and in quickening and elevating the soul. AEsthetic culture rounds the circle of our attainment, saves us from becoming mere specialists, and lifts the soul...
...Neutres, Tom 1, tit. 1, ch. 3, sec. 1; Kluber, Droit des Gens, sec. 130 (ed. 1861); Angell, Forum, Nov. 1889, p. 231. b. On historical grounds because Russia did not enforce exclusive jurisdiction; Ukase of Sept. 4, 1821, Correspondence of Blain and Salisbury p. 80. Letter of Russian Ambassador, Annual Register...