Word: merchant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lubeck merchant has bequeathd 300,000 marks to the University of Jena, toward the founding of a Darwinian professorship; Prof. Haeckel, the world-renowned scientist, has the administration of the bequest in his charge. - Tokio Independent...
...convenient if this one easy language can enable us to get along with comfort in the large hotels and shops of Europe; or can suffice for the merchant in his trade with all foreign countries...
BOSTON THEATRE. Edwin Booth in "The Merchant of Venice," and "Katharine and Petiuchis...
...give it its higher definition of statesmanship,) should be a man of broad education. He has to deal not merely with localities, but with the world, and his mental equipment should be such that he may comprehend the thought and movement of the world as thoroughly as a merchant comprehends the daily movement of the market. The broadest, the best education that a college can give, therefore, is the best preparation for a political career. The nearest that Harvard, or any college, can come to a direct preparation for this must be in its courses of historical study, of political...
...each case the work to be done will be done better by an educated than by an uneducated man. For this very reason education ought not to be restricted to any set of "professions" but extended to every branch of trade. It ought to be a necessity that the merchant of the future should be an educated man. Mr. Adams will advance the claims of railroad management to education...