Word: generale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great cathedral and his falling in love with the village pastor's daughter furnished him themes for many of his most famous lyrics. In 1775 he left for a short visit to a small principality where he became so intimate with the duke that their intimacy became the general topic of conversation. For ten years Goethe, as prime minister, fulfilled the duties of court, engaged in private theatricals and devoted himself to literature, composing some parts of "Faust" and other noted works. On September 17, 1786, Goethe started for Italy where he spent two years in acquainting himself with Rome...
...account of their education. I should not, however, like to be considered as discouraging this education. I should welcome very heartily the changing of one of our normal schools of this state into a really high normal school, in which all the topics which are grouped together under the general term of pedagogy could be taught and studied...
...indeed interesting. He makes some striking remarks on the difference between the strain caused by mental and physical exercise, showing by the use of statistics how very great is the mental strain under which the teacher or literary man labors. The agriculturist, the artisan and the professional man in general who is not engaged in teaching the youth, are accustomed to continuous toil for at least ten hours daily six days in the week. With the instructor it is quite different; about one third of the year is spent in rest or in ways not directly connected with instruction...
...prime use is to be an adjunct to the astronomical instruction offered in the college and to assist in the general course in Descriptive Astronomy which has been given at the college for some time. Advanced instruction for graduates will also be offered, and the observatory will be at the service of those who wish to pursue their studies in technical astronomy further than the undergraduate courses allow. The observatory will place the department of Astronomy on a good basis, offering, as it does, an opportunity to carry out the plans of the late Professor Greene...
DEAR SIRS.- The state of Tennessee has purchased the Hermitage the home of General Andrew Jackson and turned it over to the Ladies' Hermitage Association, an organization composed of prominent ladies of the different states, whose object is to purchase the valued furniture and relics of General Jackson now in the Hermitage, also to restore to its original beauty and grandeur, the historic mansion now quite dilapidated, and save to the nation a sacred spot where cluster memories of holy domestic life and unwavering patriotism...