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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...There this study is taught right through the school course for two hours a week, excepting in some gymnasia, where the last two years are devoted to other subjects. In the preliminary stage of instruction, no text book is used except by the teacher; the pupils are encouraged to obtain their ideas from actual observation and practice. They are told in a more or less general way about the cardinal points and the course of the sun and earth in the heavens. A mastery of this subject is given them, not by forcing them to commit the compass card...
...following conditions must be fulfilled to obtain degrees...
...obtain recommendation for the latter degree, the candidate will be required...
...well be read at any other time. Lectures are now recognized by all students as of paramount importance; the series now being given at Harvard by eminent men on the various professions proves that the students are deeply interested in any movement calculated to increase their power to obtain knowledge...
...young child in one of the cloisters of southern Wessex. He had shown great capacity for study, but his religious nature soon drove him to wider and nobler fields. He took up the cause of Rome in Friesland, but soon felt that he must go to Rome and there obtain the papal sanction for his work. In the Eternal City, he found his desire for spiritual work increased until his whole soul became fired with holy passion. From Rome under papal protection he went to his work in Germany. There, with indefatigable industry and love, he pushed his-noble work...