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While Professor Peabody has been in Dresden he has made a careful study of German Social Reform. When he leaves Dresden he will go to Munich and to Florence where he will meet Professor Thayer and visit Palestine with him during March, returning to England in the spring...
KAISER WILHELM HOTEL,Dresden, Dec. 16, 1891.My Dear Mr. Lovett: - Your kind letter about the affairs of the Union gave me great pleasure, and I have also read in the CRIMSON other facts, which brought me much satisfaction. I congratulate you all on the work you have done, and as I look over the many movements in Europe for improving the condition of the working classes, I find myself more and more drawn to the kind of work which the Union represents. The labor question is, after all, a question of personal training and discipline. The millenium...
Professor F. G. Peabody is spending the winter in Dresden...
...Harold N. Fowler has the graduate contribution this time.- a paper entitled "Recollections of a German Gymnasium." The particular "gymnasium" to which Mr. Fowler refers is the Kreuzschule of the Georg Platz in Dresden, and in the course of his article he gives a thorough description of the methods employed in German schools, the hours of study, the studies themselves, peculiarities of teaching and gradation of pupils. The paper is on the whole a clear and concise exposition of the "German way of doing things," a system which has so many advantages over the American in certain respects, that...
...specimens are made by two artists of Dresden, Germany, named Blaschka, father and son, who are the only persons in the world who can do this kind of work. The models are made entirely of blown glass, and the modelling and coloring are so exquisitely perfect that Nature must almost wonder whether they are not indeed of her own handiwork. Of each species represented, there is shown not only the natural appearance and characteristics of the flower, of the leaves, stem. etc, but also such details as are important for the proper understanding of its fundamental structure and its place...