Word: royale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...British government is using every effort to bring the dynamite conspirators to justice. The royal assent has been given to the Harcourt bill, and unusual vigilance is to be exercised in all directions...
...become clergyman, several reaching the position of bishops. The legal profession also absorbed many, justices of the English bench being among this number. Mr. Waddington, ex-premier of France, rowed in 1849, and Dr. Hornby, headmaster of Eton, in the same year, Mr. W. Spottiswood, president of the Royal Society, is also a 'Varsity Crew man. Altogether the list of intellectual oarsmen from Oxford and Cambridge is remarkable and speaks well for the great institution of crew training and its effects. The ideal which reasonably co-ordinates mental, moral, and physical training, permitting no disparagement of either, is nobly borne...
...fact Germany offers little or no advantages of higher education to them. In 1872 a medical faculty for women was organized at St. Petersburg and the first year's course was attended by 106 women. The course has now been abolished. Sweden offered a medical career to women by royal decree in 1870, and several courses are now open to them in the various colleges. In Great Britain the University of London offers degrees to women in every course but medicine; the University of Cambridge in all courses. The Royal University of Ireland is open in all its branches...
...word of commendation should be given the costumes for their elegance and beauty. The pupils are always attired in the costliest robes that the school can procure, and each, in his luxurious dressing-room, has a servant to attend to his every need. Truly, if there be no "royal road to knowledge," there is still one to the summit of dramatic art open to our students...
...just been issued by Mr. Edward C. Pickering, director of Harvard College Observatory, which describes arrangements that have been made in order to render the transmission of astronomical intelligence more speedy and accurate. An association of about 50 European observatories has recently been formed, with its headquarters at the Royal observatory, Kiel, Germany, directed by Prof. Krueger, who has taken charge of the business of the association. Connections by cable have been established with South America, South Africa and Australia, and the Harvard College Observatory has been requested to co-operate with it in the United States, by receiving...