Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...glory of having never closed her universities to women, there having been female graduates from time to time since the fifteenth century. In modern times-i. e., within the last twenty years-the universities have been more or less entirely thrown open to women in France, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, and Spain; but still remain closed in Germany, Austria, Portugal, Poland, and Bohemia.-[Academy...
...reeling off good hexameter verse, a "knack" not his alone, but common to most of the then students of average ability, we may form some idea of the system pursued at that time. It is said that even in the present age in the northern countries of Europe, especially Denmark, if a foreigner is unable to converse in the modern languages, a limited conversation may be carried on in Latin, at least among the fairly educated population. The system of the English was to put a dead language into active use, conversing in it at all opportunities, and after learning...