Word: magistri
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...October, 1583, the magistrates of Edinburgh appointed a committee to devise the order of teaching to be kept in the college now erected. A strictly university course of study was adopted. The curriculum was divided into four sessions, and at the conclusion of the fourth the students were made magistri or masters of arts. The prescribed course differed from the mediaeval degree system in three important respects : 1. In making Greek an indispensable part of university study ; 2, in the spirit of humanism which it exhibited ; 3, in its modernizing tendency. Instruction began in the winter...
...Satires of Horace, selections from Demosthenes and Thucydides, at least two tragedies of Sophocles, and Plato's Apology and Crito. Most examinations are oral both in the gymnasia and the universities. The universities comprise four departments, the law, medicine, historical philological, and the physical, mathematical. The degree of magistri is very difficult to obtain, and is seldom gained before the candidate has reached thirty. Education is a means of liberation from military service and hence is eagerly sought. Although the gymnasia and universities are very superior schools the common school system of Russia is greatly neglected...