Word: literati
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hedonian club of the Annex gave a most enjoyable entertainment and tea at the house of Mrs. Arthur Gilman yesterday afternoon. Several professors and a number of the literati of Cambridge were present...
...advanced university, but also as those who would see all businesses and occupations elevated and ennobled by intellectual training, must all agree. That education, if properly used, and properly and modestly esteemed, will give both greater power and greater pleasure to business men, as well as to the literati, is undeniable. The question, however, takes at first sight a slightly different phase, when we consider whether or not the education at professional schools should be preceded by the regular collegiate training. Is it better for students to go right from the high school or the academy to the professional school...
...literati is looking out for something to occupy his talents over, we would suggest to him that he write for the prize which the Russian Academy offers for the best essay on the life and reign of Alexander I. The minister of Alexander I. left a bequest of 50,000 roubles in charge of the Academy, with the conditions attached that the money, after accumulating for one hundred years, should be given to the writer of the best work on his master the Czar. The Academy, therefore, now announces a prize competition for this bequest. Inasmuch as the original donation...
...training rather than from any in-born talent. According to the present system of instruction the study of Latin is far more difficult to the Russian mind than the study of Greek; the literary Russian must necessarily have acquaintance with one or more European languages and the dearth in literati among the Russians results rather from a lack of power of expression than any other special reason. The boys of the higher classes enter the gymnasia or military schools when they are from twelve to fifteen years of age where they remain for six years of age where they remain...
...reasons for this may be various, but one of them undoubtedly is that Canton is a great seat of learning, and the literati of China have always been the most determined opponents of foreigners. It is at Canton, indeed, where the greatest examining University of China is to be found. A Chinese lad in the south of the empire, determining to be distinguished, has only to go to Canton to gain a reward, if he deserves it. Entering a great hall called the Hoktoi, where tables are provided for more than 3,000 candidates, he can sit down and take...