Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...considerable number of Harvard graduates are at the University of Berlin this year...
...first German university was that of Prague. When the revolution which was inaugurated by John Huss reached Prague a great contest took place. The opponents of the reformer were beaten, and leaving the university they were scattered through the German states and founded the seats of learning at Heildelberg, Berlin, Vienna etc. Thus Germany has a host of universities, typical of the government of that country, France had Paris and everything was centralized there. England had Oxford and Cambridge believing that a generous rivalry was much to be desired...
...lecture to the end of the hour. This is an evil from whose effects we all have suffered, and it would be gratifying to see the college do something, or pretend to do something to remedy it. The lecture rooms in the old hall of the University of Berlin are even worse than those in Sever in this regard, but the corporation occasionally relieve the student's agony by sending in an expert air-tester, who gathers in some atmosphere, and after testing it posts an analysis of its deadly qualities, not that any remedy is applied, but this simply...
According to an exchange, there are 600 American students in the University of Berlin...
Harvard, founded in 1638, out dates a majority of the German Universities, as Halle was founded in 1694, Breslau, 1702; Gottingen, 1737; Berlin, 1810; and Bonn, 1815. Heidelberg, the oldest German University, was founded in 1386. - Cam. Chronicle...