Word: coasting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1890
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Thayer then spoke of the influence the Jews had on the people among whom they lived. These extra-Palestinian Jews (or as they are technically called, the Dispersion), were very widely scattered all over the Western world. They appeared in Asia Minor and along the northern coast of Africa. A large portion of the cities of Alexandria and Rome were populated by Jews. These Jews clung firmly together, and established synagogues wherever they happened to be. They adapted themselves wonderfully to their surroundings, as was own by the way their Jewish ideas were mingled with the Greek Philosophy...
...most important of DeFoe's novels, with the exception of Robinson Crusoe, is Colonel Jack. The book has curiously enough, never before been published in America. In Robinson Crusoe, DeFoe took for his hero an English slaveholder, shipwrecked on the coast of Guinea while going for more slaves; in Colonel Jack, he chose a while slave bound to toil under the "apprenticeship" system of the American colony of Virginia. The style is exactly that of the more celebrated work, and presents the life of the slave in comparison with that other great novel which deals with the fortunes...
...Florida Coast" by A. H. Williams is an exciting description of an adventure with smugglers. The details of the story are decidedly well worked...
...Harvard Club of San Francisco held its Seventeenth Annual Reunion at the Palace Hotel last evening. The Club is doing such gallant pioneer work for Harvard on the coast, that it deserves recognition in your columns...
...significance of this effort to send the best scholars of the coast to Cambridge, in the face of the jealousies of a State University, cannot be overlooked. The Harvard Club of San Francisco must be credited with a determined and a successful effort to advance Harvard's interests in the Far West...