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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...take the following account of the Russian gymnasiums from an article recently published in the University News. The Russian gymnasium is a school corresponding to our high schools, but managed by the government and on the whole much like a military school. No one can enter a Russian University without a diploma from some gymnasium. The students in these gymnasiums belong necessarily to the wealthiest families as the course is rather expensive. There is on an average one gymnasium to every large city with an attendance ranging from 300 to 500. All officers and students are obliged to wear uniforms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Russian Gymnasium. | 1/23/1893 | See Source »

...held in New York at the Windsor Hotel, Saturday night. The meeting was decidedly more harmonious than was anticipated and all the suggestions made at last week's session were adopted. Only undergraduates may hereafter play on the college football teams, and while the University of Pennsylvania does not like the move it is hardly probable that the Pennsylvania men will retire from the association. The delegates present were: A. Maffitt and Vance C. McCormick, of Yale; George C. Fraser, J. McN. Thompson and Philip King, of Princeton; A. Thorndike and W. Gordon, of Wesleyan; John C. Bell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undergraduates in Football. | 1/23/1893 | See Source »

...Satire like that of Juvenal has small practical value in the improvement of human life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English C. | 1/21/1893 | See Source »

...rooms, in comparison to which the ordinary rooms in our dormitories would seem palatial. Every man rooms alone. Their meals are as frugal as those of the German people generally. There is a good deal of the naive and unsophisticated about the students; they are fond of simple amusements like walking in the country or attending the theatre. They take life easily and enjoy to the full all the good things in it. but in all they manifest a seriousness of purpose and soundness of mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: German University Life. | 1/21/1893 | See Source »

When I left college, I had no thought of entering the ministry. It once occurred to me, however, that I should like to do more for the world than I was then doing, and so I began my study. Since that time when I read the Bible, those words, "Do something for thy brethren," seems to me to be the message from God to this world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Peabody's Address. | 1/19/1893 | See Source »

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