Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that, and, perhaps, in the course of his studies, attends half a dozen universities, thus studying under the most famous professors in the branches he is pursuing, gaining the direct influence of the best thought of Germany, besides attaining a wide experience in all parts of his fatherland. It will be a great thing for American scholarship when the youth of America are able to do the same - spending, say, in the course of their university career, successive terms in New England, the Middle States, the sunny South, the great Northwest and on the Pacific coast. The broadening influence...