Word: volapuk
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York to-night. An address will be delivered by Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, Professor in the University of Pennsylvania, on the "Aims and Traits of a World Language." A discussion will take place after the lecture, and it will be participated in by Professor Charles E. Sprague, representing Volapuk, and Professor Alexander M. Bell, on behalf of "World English." President Eliot, of Harvard, ex-President McCosh, of Princeton, and ex-President Porter, of Yale, who are members of the club, will probably be present...
...Languages, to be held at Oswego, N. Y., from July 9 to August 18, and of which Prof. Adolphe Cohn, assistant professor of French at Harvard, is one of the principals. Mr. Wright will conduct a class in French at the school and will explain the elements of Volapuk if a sufficient number of the pupils desire...
...Europe, eleven periodicals are de voted to Volapuk, and the new language has been studied by over 100,000 persons...
Lectures have been given in Volapuk at Yale, the first American college at which the language has been introduced...
...Princetonian is authority for the statement that a course in Volapuk is to be started at Yale...