Word: parliaments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...self-governed, except London and Manchester, which are controlled respectively by a senate (named by the Crown) and by a board of trustees. The constitutions of Oxford and Cambridge are very complicated and are understood by nobody outside the universities and by few inside. Ancient usage, modern acts of parliament, and their own legislation have all gone to the making of them. These university governments have two modern assemblies, called in Oxford "Convocation" (made up of alumni having degrees) and "Congregation" (made up of graduates resident in the university town). These latter appoint the university council, and all university statutes...
...House of Lords, London, yesterday, a bill introduced by the Earl of Redesdale, excluding atheists from both houses of Parliament, was read for the first time...
...Parliament has passed a resolution congratulating the Queen...
...extract the following: "Students' private libraries are neither so large nor so varied in Paris as they are with us. The average Parisian student buys his books at second-hand in the old bookstores, or along the quays. . . . The Latin quarter is always represented by a Radical in the parliament, and most of the students are ardent Republicans. Unlike the students of Germany and the United States, the Parisian etudiant has no collection of songs. He sings 'Gaudeaumus,' it is true, and 'Lauriger Horatius,' but he has no songs that are French in the sense the song 'Was kommet denn...
...German Parliament has decided that Dietz, arrested for selling a prohibited publication, should be immediately released...