Word: neander
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Dates: during 1884-1884
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...commoners who have shown marked talent and ability have been admitted. Everything is conducted in a most extravagant style. The cuisine and service can not be excelled. Of course so wealthy a school has had the very best of professors, of whom two of the most noted are Michael Neander, the famous scholar and hymn-writer, and F. A. Wolf, the greatest Homeric scholar of his time. The school owns many miles of mountain forests and to induce the students to exercise the authorities have laid out long walks through them. Regular instruction in riding, shooting, swimming, fencing, and dancing...