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...what importance the medical faculty may attain. Edinburgh has nearly three times as many graduates in medicine as in any other department. And the graduation fees annually from the medical students are 35,000 dollars, whereas the fees of other students only amount to 2,500 dollars. In the Prussian universities more than one half the degrees are conferred by the medical faculty...
...lose money, when private ones are making it. So State roads resort to all sorts of tricks to get traffic. As a result in Belgium and Germany roads, competing lines are brought up. In Prussia a great amount of business is gained by making exceptions to State laws. Prussian rates are lower than in upper Europe; in France and Austria, a little higher; in England, a little more; in America, rates higher still. American freight rates are 1 1-8 cents per ton per mile, and are the lowest in the world...
...Gray, who followed for the affirmative, maintained that the world has outgrown large armies. Large armies are a direct encouragement to needless and exhausting wars. This was the case in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. We should live up to the high standard which William Penn reached when he made his great peace with the Indians, an event which Charles Sumner declared to be "the proudest sight which American history records...
...German Government prohibits women from entering any Prussian university as students, or attending the lectures of the professors...
...finds merely a repetition of the Franco-Prussian war with the circumstances and methods of battle slightly changed. Paris suffers a second capitulation...