Word: prussianize
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...meeting of the Prussian ministry on Thursday it was decided to regulate all church matters hereafter independent of the Pope...
...about 25,000. According to reports recently published, most of these students devote themselves to what in German universities is called philosophy, which includes natural history, the languages and the exact sciences. Next to this the heaviest increase has occurred in the number of the law students, the Prussian universities alone having 2558 candidates for the honors of the bench and bar. The only marked decrease has occurred in the number of students devoted to Catholic theology, while Protestant theology attracts very many students, especially when taught by evangelical professors...
...that if they were the work would be better and not worse done. And he quotes with some energy the fact that the richest Scotchman who ever lived began life in New York as a shop assistant, with a university degree. The most efficient of continental mankind, the Prussian, agrees with the Scotchman, and so in theory does the hardest of earthly workers, the Chinese, though his notion of what education is partly puts him out of court. So in our own day and country do all manner of governing men, who say deliberately, and greatly to their own disadvantage...
Twenty persons were killed in a Prussian mine on Wednesday...
...indulgence does not run to excess, but further they should not go. Unless there is rivalry, an incentive to action, the interest in athletic games at colleges will grow lukewarm, and from Harvard and Yale and Princeton and Columbia will come the complaint voiced by Herr Von Gossler, the Prussian minister of education. He has issued a circular advising that all the boys in the higher schools of the country shall be made to play games. The physical condition of the pupils is not what German opinion would have it. While the boys are proficient in their studies, they...