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...early hour the city was astir to see the great historical procession, the crowning feature of the week of jubilee. The streets were roped off and were paraded by numberless police, who confined the crowds to the sidewalks and to the great stands (tribunes they called them) erected in Bismarck Place and along Leopold Strasse. The spectators on the sidewalks were Germans of the middle and lower classes; and the contemplation of their various traits would have furnished profitable amusement for an entire day. Most of them realized the exhaustive nature of the display and were already fortifying the inner...
Last evening in Sever 11, Rev. Mr. Brooks delivered the second of his series of lectures on Socialism. State socialism does not interfere with private property, but preserves the competitive system. In Germany the passage of so many of Bismarck's governmental monopoly schemes has shown the power of state socialism there. The perfect organization of the German army has aided the growth of socialistic schemes, for acquiescence to authority has become a part of the German mind. In England, however, socialism is democratic; it has grown up from experience. Although Englishmen have always objected to state interference, yet they...
...Prince Bismarck, in reply to overtures made him by the Berlin Academy, with a view to making him an honorary member, said: "I an astonished any one could suppose I would become the colleague of a Mommsen and a Virchow...
...greatest man now in active political life, Gladstone receives 20 votes; Blaine 5; Bismarck and Edmunds 4 each; John Kelley 2; Frelinghuysen, S. S. Cox, Butler, Harrison, J. L. Sullivan and C. R. Brayton 1 each. '84 class statistics at Brown...
...general history, especially of recent times. This course should take up in turn historical topics suggested by recent events such as the present invasion of Egypt, the Tonquin War, or in another field historical questions suggested by the present political condition of Russia, the Irish land agitation, or Bismarck's imperial policy in Germany. It has been said that every man is most ignorant of the period in history immediately preceding that in which he lives. It would be the purpose of this course to train the student in a proper method of historical estimates of recent events. No more...