Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...course of study for the Spring Term will be opened by an address upon "The Foreign Relations of the United States," by Professor Silas Macvane of Harvard University...
...will be useless for anyone to apply for the examination who has not a knowledge of least three of the five languages, as follows: Dutch, and either German or French, and Spanish or Italian. The translations will be only from the foreign language to English and of an elementary character. The examinations will include questions on the physical condition of the competitors, and it will be useless for persons who are not physically strong to apply for the place. The examination will be held in this city (Washington), and arrangements may be made to give it in some other large...
...Foreign Countries...
Total of foreign countries...
...Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania which has just appeared, is the largest ever issued, containing 421 pages of matter. It gives the total registration of the university as 2632 students, 1925 of whom are from Pennsylvania alone, and 94 from foreign countries. The curricula of all the professional schools has been increased and strengthened. One of the most important changes made is that regulating the requirements for admission to the college. Henceforth candidates for the freshman class will be admitted upon examination only, except in certain specified cases, upon the diplomas of public high schools...