Word: european
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...arrangements for the contemplated European trip of American lacrosse players is being rapidly pushed. By February next the team will be selected and the journey will be begun sometime in June...
...European universities of the Middle Age had their origin as free private unions of their students, who came together under the influence of celebrated teachers, and themselves arranged their own affairs. In recognition of the public advantage of these unions they soon obtained from the state privileges and honorable rights, especially that of an independent jurisdiction, and the right of granting academic degrees. The students of that time were mostly men of mature years, who frequented the university more immediately for their own instruction, and without any direct practical object; but younger men soon began to be sent...
...change, in the universities to their present constitution, was caused mainly by the fact that the state granted to them material help, but required, on the other hand, the right of co-operating in their management. The course of this development was different in different European countries, partly owing to divergent political conditions and partly to that of national character...
...season of the year, when the elective pamphlet is soon to come out and when men are beginning to think of the courses they are to take next winter, it is not unfitting to remark on the unpardonable incompleteness of the history department. There are ample opportunities for studying European history, but, with the exception of two electives in the constitutional and political history, there is absolutely no attention given to America, in either its colonial or national existence. No one can properly understand our institutions or ideas without a knowledge of our early colonial and national history...
...young gentleman desiring to join another for an extended European tour at a moderate expense should address C. J. Hartwell, 925 Clinton street, Philadelphia...