Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Thomas Fiske, writing in the Columbia Spectator, says: "Two distinct types of the University may be noted - the metropolitan and the rural. Both exist in this country. Both exist abroad. Highly developed examples of the former may be seen at Berlin and Paris, and of the latter at Cambridge and Oxford. Generally speaking, the latter is characterized by a close relationship to the life of the student. It is said to stand in loco parentis. The university of the other type assumes no responsibility for the detail of the student's life. In both types, however, it is equally essential...
...three thousand students enrolled at the University of Berlin, eight hundred are Americans...
...Siege de Berlin will be read in connection with the new method of composition in French...
...University of Chicago has bought the stock of Calvary & Co., the well-known Berlin dealers in old books, forming a library of 289,000 volumes and 120,000 dissertations in all languages. Among these are 130,000 volumes of Greek and Roman Archaeology and classics, and 15,000 volumes of journals...
...best governed cities are those conducted on a non-partisan plan: e.g., Berlin; Prof. Gueist in Contemporary Rev., vol. 46; Glasgow: Century XXXIX...