Word: americans
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...between the universities of the United States and Germany and France will be held at the Twentieth Century Club, 3 Joy street, Boston, this evening at 8 o'clock. There will be addresses by Professor Eugen Kuchnemann, visiting professor from the University of Breslau, Professor G. P. Baker '87, American lecturer at the Sorbonne, Paris, last year, and Professor F. G. Peabody '69, who was recently the American lecturer at he University of Berlin. The conference will appeal especially to those connected with the advanced institutions of learning in and around Boston, and invitations have been sent to the Bostoner...
President Eliot was the principal speaker at the dinner of the Economic Club of Boston at the American House last evening. The subject for discussion was the report of a committee appointed by the Economic Club to study the condition of the city government of Boston and investigate the feasibility of instituting a government by commission. President Eliot has held the position of chairman of this committee, which was appointed last December...
...first of a series of six lectures by Rev. Otis Cary, D.D., missionary of the American board of commissioners in Kyoto, will be given in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The general topic of the course is "The History of Christianity in Japan"; and the special subject of today's lecture will be "The Jesuit Missions of the Sixteenth Century." These lectures, all of which are open to the public, are being given under the auspices of the faculty of the Andover Theological Seminary...
...Philippine Question"; Dec. 8--Lecture by Mr. Arthur Woods, deputy commissioner in charge of the detective work in New York City, on "Police and Detective Forces in New York"; Dec. 10--Pop concert by Musical Clubs; Dec. 14--Illustrated lecture by Hon. B. Winthrop on "Ten Years of American Administration in Porto Rico"; Dec. 16--Reading by Mr. Copeland...
...consequently harmful, as they allow only a certain limited number of boys and girls to become skilled laborers. President Eliot discussed the perfection to which the German system of trade schools has been carried. In these schools compulsory education lasts until the age of sixteen, while in the American schools it is stopped at fourteen. There is in Germany a co-operative arrangement between the educational department and the manufacturing and business interests, by virtue of which the education of boys and girls is continued along industrial lines after they leave the schools. The rules of labor unions in this...