Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Prussian elections have been carried by the liberal opposition...
...Boston's art stores, is that of Williams & Everett; here can be seen three pictures owned by a Boston gentleman, who is said to have paid $25.000 for them. The largest one is a characteristic sketch by Detaille, a group of soldiers, a scene in the late Franco-Prussian war. The first feature that one remarks in the picture is the beautiful play of light. Although the coloring does not affect one favorably, yet the fine draughting and grouping of the figures show the masterhand of the man, who, with De Neuville, leads this branch of the French school...
...relations of instructors to students have been frequently discussed, but rarely to the advantage of the former. Instructors, it is assumed are invariably as stiff as Prussian grenadiers, and as frigid as icebergs. That there is a lack of cordiality between instructor and student cannot be denied; that much of this is due to the instructor must also be admitted; but that the whole is due to him is not true. Last year a professor who taught four courses, each taken by some 50 or 60 men, repeatedly extended invitations to his pupils to call on him. For this purpose...