Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Kuhnemann is Rector of the Royal Prussian Academy at Posen, Germany, that is to say, he occupies a position similar to that of an American university president. He is the author of the most significant complete biography of Schiller, and his reputation as an inspiring orator has been confirmed by people who have heard him speak in New York, Chicago and other large cities of this country...
...fulfillment of the plan agreed upon by. Harvard and the Prussian Ministry of Education, Professor E. G. Peabody '69, Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, and Chairman of the Board of Preachers to the University, has been designated as the Harvard lecturer at the University of Berlin in the first half of the next academic year. Professor Peabody was selected by the University of Berlin from a list of professors available for such service which was furnished to the Rector of the University of Berlin. Professor Peabody's lectures will be on the subject dealt...
...provisional agreement has recently been reached between Harvard University and the Department of Education of the Prussian Government, after about two years of informal correspondence, where by the University will make an annual exchange of professor with the University of Berlin. Each year one Harvard professor will be selected to serve once semester at Berlin, and one Berlin professor will be chosen for a half-year service one semester at Berlin, and one Berlin professor will be chosen for a half-year's service at Cambridge. The professor who will exchange will not necessarily be in the same department...
...Moser, the author, is one of the leading comedy dramatists in Germany and has produced, in a period of less than fifty years, nearly a hundred plays, several of which have been translated into English. "Der Veilchenfresser" is an excellent example of his military plays. The atmosphere is essentially Prussian, and many points indicative of military traits and foibles are subtly introduced. The general motive of the play is to show that in spite of their apparent frivolity, German officers are capable of entertaining the highest ideals. The staging and the costumes of the play will be more elaborate than...
...Franco-Prussian War had a great effect upon Verliane. He had a violent nature, and welcomed the war of 1870 as a chance for throwing off the yoke of social restraint that he hated so much. He became associated with the Commune, which later caused his exile. During his residence in Brussels he shot a friend in a quarrel. For two years he lived in prison, spending his time in introspective meditation. This led to his becoming a Roman Catholic, and to the writing of "Sagesse" in 1880. His existence was two fold, - either spent in debauchery and sensual crimes...