Word: berlin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...learn that the great university of Berlin is preparing to add a department in dentistry to its other courses. In one subject at least Harvard has preceded what is perhaps the greatest University of Europe, for the dental school connected with this university has been established for several years. But dentistry is largely an American science, and that European institutions should follow the lead of those of America in adding instruction in this branch to their other professional branches is therefore only natural...
...Japanese student at the University of Berlin has been appointed assistant to the Professor of Anatomy, and the Minister of Public Worship has approved the appointment. No honor equivalent to this is said yet to have fallen on a Chinaman in any European institution...
...Alired Edmund Brehm, a zoologist of wide celebrity and at present Director of the Berlin Aquarium, will arrive in Philadelphia next week, and will deliver during the month a series of lectures there...
...students of the University of Berlin recently celebrated the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of Luther, by a grand "Festcommers." Being desirous to see a good specimen of this thoroughly German student-custom, we procured a ticket and on the appointed evening made our way to the place of meeting. This was a large hall, hired for the occasion. The platform was decorated with flags, the national coat of arms and other emblems, and was occupied by two or three rows of tables. Down the hall, al right angles to the platform, ran fourteen long tables with about eighty...
...else but a quiet reply to the Phi Beta Kappa speech. The pamphlet in question is called "The Question of a Division of the Philosophical Faculty," and is made up of the inaugural address of Prof. Hofmann on the occasion of his assuming the rectorship of the University of Berlin, and of the two opinions of the Philosophical Faculty of that university on the question of admitting to the university graduates of Realschulen on the same footing as graduates of a Gymnasium. It is very fortunate that in this discussion we have the positive testimony...