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...University of Christiania, by a unanimous vote of the Odelsthing, has been empowered to place female students on exactly the same footing as male with regard to examinations and scholarships. Women have been allowed to attend the lectures of the university for the last two years...
...colonial universities and colleges will be represented by some eighty delegates. Harvard will be represented by her professor of belleslettres, Mr. Lowell, who has also been selected to represent Cornell. It is also expected the following European universities will send delegates. Halle, Gottingen, Leipzig, Upsala, Jena, Berlin, Kiel, Christiania, Ghent, Zurich, St. Petersburg, Helsingfors, Cracow, Pesth, Paris, Lund and Louvain. Medals to celebrate this great event in the history of the Scottish university will be struck from gold and silver. Among the contemplated ceremonies will be the conferring of the degrees of D. D. and L. L. D. upon distinguished...
...telling me to go to Norway. Very fashionable, delightful climate, fine scenery. Took his advice and left London immediately. Have a very vague idea how I got here. Was so confused with time-tables, railroads, steamboats, and sea-sickness, that my journal is quite unintelligible. Think I sailed for Christiania from a city in England called Ull (spelled with an H on the map). Having bought a guide-book and a conversation-manual, I leave Christiania and strike out boldly for the interior. Intend ultimately to reach Drontheim...
Ride all the morning on a train which goes at the rate of fourteen miles an hour. In the afternoon embark on a steamboat which makes between fifteen and sixteen miles an hour. (These statistics I glean from time-tables, which I studied carefully before leaving Christiania.) On board the steamboat I talk affably to the passengers around me. They are very good listeners, but no conversationalists. They say nothing to me, but only smile and shake their heads. Finally I ask a gray-haired man the name of the lake on which we are sailing. He replies thoughtfully, "Most...
...disgusted with Norway, and do not understand why the sun did not set. Am afraid that something is out of order in the universe, and that we are going to have an earthquake. Perhaps it is a result of the comet. I hastily work my way back to Christiania, and leave the country by the first steamer...