Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...general law school courses. In addition, instruction is offered in physical and political geography, ethnography, philosophy; history of political theories from Plato to Hegel, bibliography of the political sciences, political history of the state of New York, modern Roman law, comparative constitutional law of the several commonwealths of the American Union, Latin-American diplomacy, international private law, comparative administrative law of the principal states of Europe and of the United States, and comparative administrative law of the several commonwealths of the American Union...
...Leipsic University, a few years ago, the socialistic element was particularly strong. German Socialists, Russian Nihilists, and bold radical spirits from Poland, Roumania, and other countries of Europe, composed a strange and reckless company in the heart of the university. A young American, of extremely radical views, entered the university at about this time, and it was his fortune to meet in daily intercourse the most extreme socialistic and nihilistic section. B - , as his name may be called, had determined to earn his own living for the first year, and, as a result, he soon found himself in the Convictorium...
...trial. Naturally politics was the ill-absorbing topic of conversation, and, as may be imagined, the young reformers, although united in opposition to the existing evils of society, were often divided by the most conflicting opinions as to the remedy of those evils. The club to which the young American belonged, was a veritable centre of political news; and many of the members were active writers for the press, and also corresponded with leading politicians. Writing and teaching was a great resource to the poor students, obliged to earn their own living. They were not mere theorists, but showed...
...hardships suffered by many of the company, and their fierce struggles, first for existence and then for an education, the young socialists, old beyond their years and savage in their hatred of the existing order of things, showed among themselves a manly cordiality and a true convivial spirit. The American pronounced them all "good fellows." Yet each preserved his strong personality at all times, and it would be hard to find any where such resolution and firmness of character as was exhibited by these students...
Yale, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, and Princeton are the only American colleges which provide fellowships for graduate students desiring to pursue studies beyond the regular academic course...