Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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In lieu of this there were grades, ranks, and professors really officers, responsible themselves to the commander-in-chief, called the Grand-Master of the University.
This latter was assisted by a council of thirty members, chosen from the high functionaries of the University, professors and others. All France was divided into Academies, under the immediate supervision of a Rector, and a council over which he presided.
This council was charged with the "surveillance" of the schools, and other institutions of instruction in its own district. Each department had also its inspector and council.
Thus, it will be seen, everything centred in the University, and it was thence that all this machinery took its motive power. To-day the system is the same, with the exception of some modifications of detail. The Grand-Master no longer exists, being superseded by the Minister of Public...
The council is differently constituted, the church element being now represented as well as the laity. Nevertheless, the system itself has undergone no essential change since the year 1808, when Napoleon I. instituted it. Now that we have become acquainted with the organization of the University, and the relation to...