Word: european
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...London Telegraph editorially asserts that "at present no substantial teaching of any of the living European tongues takes place either at Cambridge or Oxford...
...fact that with this plan of separate cells no favoritism is possible. The poorest may win, and I knew of a case in which the son of a Chinese clerk in a European's office at Canton came out second in the trial and was at once forwarded to the capital, there to become a mandarin of distinction. It should be fair; for the candidates enter at "The Gate of Perfect Equity," hand in their essays at "The Hall of Perfect Rectitude," see them sealed up in "The Hall of Restraint," and know that they are examined in "The Hall...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON :- Dear Sirs : The report of President Porter's recent lecture on European colleges and schools, as copied in the HERALDCRIMSON from the News, is likely to diffuse some very erroneous ideas respecting certain very important features of the English universities and schools, and I think you will not be unwilling to allow a little space for their correction. Let me premise however that it seems to me probable the News reporter may have misunderstood President Porter's remarks, as I should suppose a gentleman so eminent as a scholar and as the head of a great college...
France spends $5 for war every time she spends 35 cents for education. That is a great deal worse than Prussia where $5.49 is for war against $2.20 for education. But little Switzerland makes the best showing among European powers, where $4.84 is expended for public defence, against $4.16 for educating the people. Russia is worse than France, the figures being six cents for education to $5.08 for war, and no other nation stands in as unenviable a light...
...secondary or preparatory schools Arabic, Turkish, French, and English, pure mathematics, drawing, history, and geography. The special schools are devoted respectively to the subjects of law, medicine, and art, engineering, etc. Besides there are government schools for the blind, those supported by the various Christian communities, both native and European, and the almost infinite number of "Free schools" attached to the public fountains and maintained by the same charitable foundation as the fountain. Every visitor to Cairo is familiar with these. Passing a fountain at almost any time of the day, he will be pretty sure to hear from...