Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...play, which is cast in the time of Fried rich Wilhelm I, is historical, and, curiously enough, its revival here coincides with its revival at the Royal Theatre in Berlin in honor of the Kaiser's fiftieth birthday, which was yesterday. The play itself gives a very entertaining sketch of the times of the father of Frederick the Great, contrasting his conservatism with his strictly military interests on one side, and on the other, with the new liberal movements which were taken up by the progressive elements of the court, especially the Crown Prince, and finally by the Queen...
...Zopf und Schwert" is a romance of court life in Berlin. The Prince of Baireuth persuades his sister to receive a French master recommended to her by her brother, without the knowledge of anyone. The prince meanwhile has fallen desperately in love with the portrait of a princess whom the Queen desires to see married to the Prince of Wales. The latter is momentarily expected to arrive at Berlin and is preceded by an ambassador, from whom the Prince of Baireuth discovers that the entire plan of the marriage is part of a trade between the two countries. This news...
...Baireuth persuades his sister to receive secretly a French master recommended to her by her brother. Meanwhile the prince has fallen in love with a picture of a princess, whom the Queen desires to see married to the Prince of Wales. When the latter is expected to come to Berlin and is preceded by an ambassador, the Prince of Baireuth discovers that the marriage depends on the acceptance of a commercial treaty. This he communicates to the princess, who is being held under surveillance for having received the French master. Intrigue follows intrigue and the prince is banished from Berlin...
Professor Haskins was graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1887 and received the degree of Ph.D. from the same institution in 1890. After doing advanced work at the Universities of Berlin and Paris, he was appointed instructor in history at Johns Hopkins. After a year in this position, he went to the University of Wisconsin as instructor in history, and in 1890 and 1891 was successively promoted to the positions of assistant professor of history and professor of European history, holding the latter until 1902. In the winter of 1899 and 1900 he held the position of lecturer on history...
...been professor of history in the University since 1902, coming from the University of Wisconsin where he had held a similar chair since 1892. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins of the class of 1887 and also received the degree of Ph.D. there in 1890. He studied at Berlin and Paris and became an instructor at Johns Hopkins whence he went to Wisconsin. Professor Haskins is now chairman of the department of History and Political Science. He was born in Meadville, Pa., December...