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German university students received some pretty severe thrusts in the Prussian Chamber of Deputies recently. Many complaints were made of the idleness, the drinking and dueling habits of students, of the academic system of cramming, and of the clique existence led by the professor. The sympathies of the great majority of the house, however, favored dueling...
...most of the other European countries the education is similar to that of the Prussian system, but not so rigid and complete. The result is that Germany has not only the largest and finest equipped army, but also the most enlightened and educated soldiers in the world...
...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...
...footing as graduates of a Gymnasium. It is very fortunate that in this discussion we have the positive testimony of men who are as capable of speaking with authority on the subject as are the professors of the leading university of Germany. It has been the policy of the Prussian government, in the last few years, to use every means in their power to make the Royal Frederick-William University in Berlin the National University, and such encouragements have been offered to professors of other universities that the faculty of the Berlin university is probably the most representative...
Baron George Von Bunsen, member of the Imperial and Prussian Parliament, will give a lecture here tonight, on "Election Methods in Germany" (the nomination, canvass, election, and subsequent relation to constituents) at No. 11 Sever Hall...