Word: prussia
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...decree issued at Berlin on Dec. 7, 1870, by the Royal Minister of Public Instruction, Dr. Von Muhler, granted to subjects of Prussia who had completed the full course of study in a Realschule of the first rank, the right of matriculation in the Philosophical Faculty of any Prussian University for the purpose of studying Mathematics, the Physical and Natural Sciences, or Modern Foreign Languages. By this removal of restrictions which heretofore had practically barred the way to University studies for those who had not received their preparatory training at a Gyninasium, a new set of requisitions for admission...
...work entitled "The History of Prussia to the Accession of Frederick the Great," by Professor Her bert Tuttle, of Cornell, will be issued this week...
...collection of Christina, Queen of Sweden, was added to the Library. It contained most of the literary treasures captured by her father, Gastavus Adolphus, at Prague, Wortzburg and Bremen. In 1745, the library of the Ottobuoni family was added, comprising 3,862 manuscripts. In 1815, after peace with Prussia had been made, Pope Pius VII. restored many of the manuscripts taken from Heidelberg. The whole number of Greek, Latin and Oriental manuseripts now in the Library is 23,580, being the finest collection in the world. It also contains 30,000 beoks. among the large number of manuscript treasures which...
France spends $5 for war every time she spends 35 cents for education. That is a great deal worse than Prussia where $5.49 is for war against $2.20 for education. But little Switzerland makes the best showing among European powers, where $4.84 is expended for public defence, against $4.16 for educating the people. Russia is worse than France, the figures being six cents for education to $5.08 for war, and no other nation stands in as unenviable a light...
Germany has twenty-one universities, of which ten are in Prussia. The total number of students attending this summer was 25,084, being an increase of 1260 over the number of last summer. Of the above 7000 are Americans...