Word: provinciale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This dramatic library consists for the most part of biographies of stage celebrities, narratives of Green Room gossip which were privately printed or issued from provincial presses, and local theatrical playbills. The biographies are those of Cooke, Garrick, Jordon, Kemble, Macready, and Siddons; that of Garrick is illustrated with playbills...
"The Engineering Schools of France are of two kinds, those established in Paris as a part of a centralized system, and those attached to the provincial universities. The Paris schools are by far the older,--the Ecole Polytechnique, for example, is over 125 years old--and have enjoyed a well...
"Fundamental training in the sciences, especially Mathematics, is very thorough at French scientific schools, and students are usually very well prepared on the scientific side. This high standard of scholarship is largely due to the competitive examinations which are very general in France, and which have long been used at...
On the whole, the outlook is most encouraging, for the victor is the most liberal of the Chinese generals, far more educated and intelligent than Chang, and with definite plans for progressive reforms. His proposed constitutional assembly is to make the central government really representative and abolish the system of...
Mr. Eliot's opening sentence, certainly, no Harvard man who heard it has forgotten, for it dealt with aspects of education not before breathed at that meeting of that provincial assembly. "Naturally", he said, "in considering a question of this sort I turn first of all to the experience of...