Word: bavaria
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been noted that the present age is peculiarly prolific of royal authors. Among reigning sovereigns who have written books are Queen Victoria, Dom Pedro II of Brazil, Dom Luis of Potugal, the Shah, Oscar II of Sweden, Prince Nakita of Montenegro, Ludwig II of Bavaria, and Queen Elizabeth of Roumania; and among princes and princesses who have dabbled in literature are the Princess Christian, the Crown Princess of Germany the Princess Theresa of Bavaria, the two sons of the Prince of Wales, the two sons of the King of Sweden, the duke of Edinburgh, and the Compte de Paris...
...recent lecture on "The Lesson of Greek Art" in New York, Dr. Charles Waldstein, of Cambridge University, lately of Columbia College, took occasion to draw the moral from Greek art in favor of the highest and most liberal education in this country. The advice of the King of Bavaria to a young architect, he chained, was the advice we, of all nations, needed most to heed: "Build your spire first! The others will see to it that the nave does not remain unfinished"-advice the very reverse in purport of the popular maxim of "penny wise and pound foolish...
...university of Zurich has received women on equal terms with man. There are at present in the university thirty-one female students (twenty in medicine, ten in philosophy, and one in chemistry), distributed as follows: seven from Germany, two each from Baden and Schiswig, and one each from Bavaria, East Prussia and Sondershausen. Thirty women have received the Doctor's degree-twenty-three in medicine and seven in philosophy...
...medical course at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Eight years ago, over a hundred lady students were at this university, but now the number is considerably less from political reasons. Nearly all the educational institutions of Italy are, and have been for years, open to women. In Bavaria since 1880, women are actually prohibited from taking a medical course, and in fact Germany offers little or no advantages of higher education to them. In 1872 a medical faculty for women was organized at St. Petersburg and the first year's course was attended by 106 women. The course...