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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...January 10, by the invitation of the college authorities, a sitting was held at Cambridge of the Seventh Congress of the National Society of French Professors residing in Engiand. M. Waddington, the French Ambassador, presided. In his address, M. Waddington said that last year the society had met at Oxford by invitation of that university. He hoped the language which the society represented would soon be placed on a par with the classics. The modern school had not yet taken the position it deserved, and Moliere and Goethe should be studied by the side of Euripides and Sophocles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oxford and Cambridge Favor Modern Languages. | 1/16/1888 | See Source »

...individual to that of the body politic? 18. Are the Romans to be commended or condemned for their policy toward the Greeks? 19. Should the Roman Empire be regarded as having, on the whole, obstructed or furthered the development of nationalities? 20. Was Adams right in sending an ambassador to France in 1798? 21. Ought the United States to have gone to war in 1812? 22. Did Clay make a corrupt bargain with Adams in 1824-25? 23. Was the compromise of 1850 necessary for the salvation of the Union? 24. Has the House of Representatives the full power intended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Forensics, 1885-86. | 3/1/1886 | See Source »

...Andrieux, late French ambassador to Spain, and M. Laurent, editor of the newspaper Paris, fought a duel Friday morning with swords, in which the latter was slightly wounded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 12/2/1882 | See Source »

...Sultan invited Lord Dufferin, the British ambassador, to the palace yesterday, and expressed to him his regret at the affray on Sunday in Alexandria, and especially at the wounding of Mr. Cookson, the British consul, and the killing of the engineer of the British man-of-war Superb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 6/14/1882 | See Source »

...Pope, in giving an audience to the Spanish ambassador, said he regretted the political agitation which had arisen in connection with the proposed pilgrimage of Spaniards to Rome...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 2/15/1882 | See Source »

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