Word: royale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prince Albert Victor, whose brief term at Cambridge University has been repeatedly interrupted by visits to his royal relatives, it is said, is voted a dull boy, though a pleasant companion, by his fellow students...
...these reasons you can well imagine the universities are feared and detested by the present government. Though created by the royal power, for Russia has no other power, it is now more out of deference to the rest of Europe that they are allowed to exist at all. Nominally there is a university Senate and a Rector at its head. In reality the universities are under the direct control of the Czar. It is he who rules us. It is upon his words that our privileges depend. With his whims change the whole system and method of instruction. Not only...
...That the Christian faith may be propagated amongst the Western Indians to the glory of Almighty God" was one of the reasons assigned in the royal charter for founding William and Mary college. There is no record, however, to show that an Indian ever received a degree from that famous institution. Although Roanoke College has been attended by Choctaws for thirteen years, Mr. William Harrison McKinney is the first one to complete the course and receive a degree, Bachelor of Arts. He has the distinction of being the first Indian, of full blood, to graduate at a Virginia college...
...professorship of this sort and Mr. Francis Elgar, naval architect of the city of London, has recently been unanimously elected to the chair of naval architecture in the University of Glasgow, which was recently endowed by Mr. John Elder. Mr. Elgar is a Fellow of the late Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, and a member of the Council of the Institution of Naval Architects. He has had great experience in the design and construction of war ships for the British and foreign navies, and also of mercantile vessels. He investigated the causes of the disasters which befell...
...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...