Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following subject for an essay was recently set for the higher classes in a girl's High School in the Friederichstrauss, Berlin: "To prove from the ideas of Plato. the atoms of Democrites, the substance of Spinosa, the monads of Leibnitz, and from the subjunctive forms of presentation of Kant, that philosophy has never neglected to compare the calculable operations of her hypothesis with the operations that fall under her observation.' Vassar and other "sweet girl graduates," remarks an exchange, may now hide their diminished heads...
Baron George von Bunsen, with whom the college made so pleasant an acquaintance two years ago, delivered the commemorative address on Frederick Knapp last month in Berlin...
Prof. Wolcott Gibbs has just been elected a member of the physico-mathematical divisions of the Royal Academy of Berlin...
...this country poor scholars sometimes act as hotel waiters during the vacation to make money enough for next term, but their energy does not compare with that of a young Russian Jew, now studying chemistry at Berlin, Too poor to carry on his studies unaided, and too proud to receive help, he has got employment in the night brigade of street scavengers, and works away briskly for a small wage.-N. Y. Post...
Doctor Paulsen, Professor of Philosophy and Pedagogics in the University of Berlin, concludes his admirable 'History of Higher Education in Germany from the Reformers to the present time' with a review of the present needs of education in that country. No one could acknowledge more frankly and gratefully than does Professor Paulsen how much Germany owes to the study of the classics. He shows that since the time of Luther it has been the dominent force in education. He traces the various phases of its development, and gives most carefully drawn pictures of the men who were distinguished in this...