Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...studies of the men are of the same practical and significant kind. The selection of medicine is marked and gives a clue to the present lack of doctors. Men are leaving classical studies for physics, chemistry and physiology. Most of the women are studying at the University of Berlin, but even the new universities of Frankfurt and Warsaw have a considerable number...
...night and day on advanced posts in 48-hour shifts, but the men and cars are pretty well recovered from the strenuous nights and days they got at Verdun and all are eager to see our fighting division move where we will get in the coming pursuit race to Berlin...
...limitations of space in the little building which thus far has been at our disposal prevented even a moderately satisfactory realization of this idea. The new building goes a long way toward its fulfilment. Indeed, the genius of its architect, Professor Bestelmeyer of Berlin, has made this building in itself a condensed epitome of the course which art has taken in Middle Europe during the last nine hundred years. Without in the least laacking an organic unity or monumental impressiveness, the exterior of this building shows a rich diversity of structural detail, suggesting rather than copying motifs of numerous styles...
...Comparative Zoology. From Paita they will travel on mules across the Andes, and into the Amazon valley. The purpose of the expedition is to collect zoological specimens and to study the native tribe of Guarani Indians. Dr. Tello, who holds the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Berlin, will make anthropological investigations and study the language of the Indians, while Dr. Moss will study diseases and their causes. Mr. Noble will have charge of the zoological work...
...ignorance of college men concerning the progress of the great war. A recent issue of the Independent Magazine makes this statement: "We fear that they have been reading the war news, but have made no effort to understand it." Between the conflicting fires of an English official communication, a Berlin official report, and a French communique, it takes more than an intelligent person to read the news of a single engagement and understand which forces gained the advantage. After a series of attempts to untangle the contradictory statements, the normal person is satisfied to glance at the headlines and trust...