Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...artistic and, to a certain extent, in the scholarly world we are still far inferior to our European brothers. Every day we watch with complacency the departure of friends "to study abroad." With unconcern we see the annual exodus of a quota of our graduating classes to Berlin, Paris, and other foreign centres of learning; and yet we know that this flight for knowledge is a confession of the inability to acquire that knowledge here. Does it not seem as if this great western half of civilization might at least equal the eastern in its opportunities for learning? We hear...
Prof. Jordan, the eminent Berlin authority on Roman topography, is dead...
There are 149 American students in the University of Berlin - 9 studying theology, 5 law, 47 medicine, 58 philosophy, 28 mathematics and natural science and 2 political science...
...over the world; no college - not even Harvard - has men from so many foreign countries. Two-thirds of the States of the Union are represented on our rolls. Alumni who have studied abroad can testify that they have seen a passage in Aristotle "stump" a whole class in Berlin University, until it came to one of our own graduates, who translated it with ease. "What gymnasium did you come from?" asked the celebrated professor. "From none, sir; from the University of Pennsylvania!" "I do not know much of it," was the reply; "but where you came from they knew...
...Webster, '85 and G. Santayaua, '86 are at present studying in the University of Berlin...