Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...institution that comes anywhere near our ideal of what a university, in the proper sense of the word, ought to be. We have made great, very great progress during the past twenty-five years, but we have nothing like the great universities of Vienna, Leipsic, Berlin, or even Strasburg, not to speak of Oxford and Cambridge, in England. Ezra Cornell, himself not a liberally educated man, gave one of the best definitions of a university when he said that he would found an institution where anybody could learn anything. On the side of teaching, we have not enough teachers...
...Burdette, '81, is seriously ill in Berlin...
...Yale because they believe that at those institutions they will find the best general faculty and methods of teaching, although in some one department they may feel that some other college is superior. Brilliant professors die but thoroughly organized systems do not. It is the policy of the Berlin University at present to collect all the leading professors of Germany with its faculty. In the end it will be in Germany as in England and America; Berlin will be the national university and the remaining institutions will degenerate into local affairs...
Washington's Birthday was observed in an appropriate manner in several cities of the United States and in London and Berlin...
Prince Bismarck's illness, as also that of Emperor William, creates considerable anxiety in Berlin...