Word: folks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first number of the new Journal of American Folk-Lore, published by the American Folk-Lore Society, of which Professor Childs is president, contains several interesting papers, besides publishing the officers, members and rules of the society...
Prof. F. J. Child has been elected president of "The American Folk-lore Society," which has for its object the study of folk-lore in general and in particular the collection and publication of the falk-lore of North America...
...effect is truly startling. Long, long years have passed since these gay folk lived and loved and fought and made merry in the old Palatinate. Havoc and desolation have swept the city time and again since then. They had their day and went to rest; and their bones have long since dropped quietly to dust. Yet some weird spell has called them from the grave. Here they are once more, riding through these same streets, with the same trappings, the same armor, the same music and, in the case of historical personages, almost the same features. Professor Jacob Mycillus goes...
...reason why she should contribute a large number of students to our colleges. Canada is a foreign country as much as Mexico or Russia; her sympathies are divided, not between Canada and the United States, but between England and France. The French portion of the race are simple, ignorant folk, under the absolute domination of their rulers, - the priests; were they to attend any colleges in America they would probably go to the great Roman Catholic colleges, like Notre Dame, and Seton Hall; the English Canadians, on the other hand, are furious loyalists, affect a lofty scorn for the "States...
...ancient, and certainly they have far more important practical uses. Some knowledge of the German and French literatures is essential to a good education. Surely the shrewd wit of Moliere and the philosophic penetration of Goethe are at least as well worth being familiar with as the pretty folk lore of Hmoer or the coarse buffooneries of Aristophanes. Certain minds could better be introduced to these various literatures through translations, the use of which has been recommended both by precept and by example even by so great a thinker as Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson...