Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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According to Mr. E. G. Ravenstein, the English foot is used as the standard of length by countries having 471,000,000 inhabitants, the metre by 347,091,000 people, and the Castilian foot by 5,905,000. Denmark and Russia are the only countries in continental Europe which have not adopted the metre...
...universities of Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Italy have opened their courses to women...
...Both has published some statistics of over-pressure in the German schools. According to these, 64 per cent. of the scholars "who should work up to graduation are much below the normal standard of health." In Denmark, where a still higher standard of education is insisted on, a government investigation brings to light that 29 per cent. of the boys, and 41 per cent. Of the girls, suffer from over-pressure...
John E. Ingalls, of Denmark, Iowa, a student of Phillips Academy, was drowned in the river at Exeter while bathing Saturday afternoon...
Italy has declared its seventeen universities open to women, and Switzerland. Norway, Sweden and Denmark have taken similar action, while France has opened the Sorbonne to women, and Russia its highest schools of medicine and surgery...