Word: poland
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Saturday morning, Jan. 7 and 8, 1887, in the Latin School building, Warren avenue. The Friday afternoon session will be open at 2 o'clock by a report on "the work of the commission of colleges in New England on admission examinations," presented by Professor William C. Poland of Brown University. Discussion will follow at 3 on the question, "Does the circular recently issued by Harvard University conduce to greater uniformity in requirements for admission to college?" Remarks will be made by President Eliot of Harvard, President Capen of Tufts and others. A business meeting will be held...
...Leipsic University, a few years ago, the socialistic element was particularly strong. German Socialists, Russian Nihilists, and bold radical spirits from Poland, Roumania, and other countries of Europe, composed a strange and reckless company in the heart of the university. A young American, of extremely radical views, entered the university at about this time, and it was his fortune to meet in daily intercourse the most extreme socialistic and nihilistic section. B - , as his name may be called, had determined to earn his own living for the first year, and, as a result, he soon found himself in the Convictorium...
...graduates from time to time since the fifteenth century. In modern times-i. e., within the last twenty years-the universities have been more or less entirely thrown open to women in France, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, and Spain; but still remain closed in Germany, Austria, Portugal, Poland, and Bohemia.-[Academy...
According to the official report, 268 persons, including many foreign travellers, lost their lives by the burning of the circus in Berditscheff, Russian Poland, on Saturday...
...circus building in Berditscheff, Russian Poland, was destroyed by fire on Saturday, and three hundred persons perished in the flames...