Word: russian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Russian Government is about to establish at St. Petersburg a Polyglot College, in which will be taught all the modern languages of any importance, and the tongues of all the nationalities, about seventy, under the Czar's sceptre. The purpose of this college is to prepare trust worthy and thorough interpreters for the diplomatic, consular, and military service, the civil officers and missionaries who have to deal with the different nations found in Russia, and mercantile agents who have to attend to the import and export trade. A Russian professor himself speaking over a score of languages says...
...language of Little Russia. 'What language is that?' he asked me in Italian. 'Little Russia,' I answered. 'Well, come to see me again in two weeks' he said. Two weeks passed and I presented myself to the cardinal, who for two hours spoke to me in Little Russian, and that very fluently. To my question how he could master a new language in so short a time, the prelate answered that he had known Russian already. That did not satisfy me, however, for one knowing Latin can easily learn Italian, but not within a fortnight. Since that time, for forty...
...Russian University students are to be compelled to wear a uniform dress...
...RUSSIAN REVOLT. EDMUND NOBLE. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN...
...most puzzling questions that have recently disturbed the minds of economists and socialogists, is the so called Russian Revolt. Mr. Noble in his little volume by this name has endeavored to solve the enigma. As a study in history, the book is exceptionally concise, and thoroughly satisfactory with the exception of the study given to the period more immediately previous to the dynamite period of agitation. The author has not sufficiently noticed this period of the revolt, and as a result, the book somewhat unnaturally falls into two parts,-preparation for the revolt, and the revolt itself. The treatment...