Word: institute
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...Haskins, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science at the University was learned last night when Professor M. C. Diehl visiting professor from the University of Paris announced the election of Professor Haskins as a foreign associate member of the Academie des Inscriptionset Belles Lettres a division of the Institut de France...
...American and British universities, a comparison which may be of less general interest, but one which interests me particularly. It is a comparison of the American and British methods of teaching science. I am myself a former professor of chemistry and I am now in this country addressing the Institut of Politics on the subject of "Chemistry and World Peace", so I have good cause to study the relative methods of scientific instruction...
...British lawyer is not, however, prominent in Political affairs. From 1919 to 1923 he was a professor in the University of London. He is in addition a corresponding member of I'Institut de Droit compare, and a member of I'Institut de Droit International...
Franz Von Oy is a native of Westphalia. He studied at the Institut fur Seeverkehr and Weltwirtshaft in Kiel, taking his doctor's degree last year. It was during his studies there, in the field of social economics, that he first conceived the idea of pursuing his studies in the United States. "From the books that I read by American scholars, I perceived that I could learn much from these men. I chose Harvard because there I thought I could best get what I wanted...
...Academy perished, like the other academies of the ancien régime, in the Revolution. In 1795, the Convention stated that "there is, for all the Republic, but one National Institute, designed to gather discoveries and to perfect the Arts and the Sciences." From 1796 on, the Academy became a part of the Institut de France-the most important part. It was still confined to 40 members, called Immortals, and continued to be the guardian of the French language designed to encourage Literature and foster genius. In every other respect, it was changed...