Word: continentality
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Already, the fantastic imaginings of Jules Verne have been largely realized. Fis schedule of "Around the world in eighty days" has been reduced by more than half; and it only remains for an arctic explorer to reach the North Pole, run around it in a few seconds and break another...
There is, of course, a sharp distinction, to be made between scholarship and marks. One of the most frequent comments made by European professors contrasting American university education with that of England or the Continent is the overemphasis put by Americans on the importance of marks. Scholarship cannot be measured...
Mr. J. August, Harvard Square business man, is sailing today for an extended tour of England and the Continent to procure a Spring stock of habordashery and woolens.
For the past year Mr. Kerr has been travelling on this continent, but the first of the coming month he will sail with President Garfield of Williams College for Europe.
"A newcomer in India receives two ideas of the country--that of size and complexity on the one hand, and of change and crisis on the other. India covers an area as great as the continent of Europe, not including Russia, and if superimposed on the United States, would stretch...