Word: russian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Russian imperial government has granted $200,000 for a medical school for women, to be established in St. Petersburg...
...others. A very interesting article is "Stray Leaves from a Whaleman's Log"; it is a collection of whaling stories with a description of the general methods of whaling. An article worthy of the attention of everyone is "A Voice of Russia" by Pierre Botkine, the secretary of the Russian Legation at Washington. In a few words Mr. Botkine shows how foolish and groundless the inimical feeling towards Russia, so common here, is. He explains that, as nations, Russia and the United States always have been and always should be on the best of terms. He then points out some...
...take the following account of the Russian gymnasiums from an article recently published in the University News. The Russian gymnasium is a school corresponding to our high schools, but managed by the government and on the whole much like a military school. No one can enter a Russian University without a diploma from some gymnasium. The students in these gymnasiums belong necessarily to the wealthiest families as the course is rather expensive. There is on an average one gymnasium to every large city with an attendance ranging from 300 to 500. All officers and students are obliged to wear uniforms...
...feet at the other end. The rules require that all persons using the swimming tank should be washed before entering the pool, and the showers in the Turkish baths are to be used for this purpose. Mr. Schwartz, a skilled bathing master, will be in charge of the Russian and Turkish baths...
...CENTURY.The leader is an article on Repin, the greatest of, Russian painters, by Isabel Hapgood. Then follows the first installment of the widely advertised new story by Mrs. Burton Harrison, author of the "Anglomaniacs." It is illustrated by C. Dana Gibson and he has never done better work than in the scene at the opera house. It seems as if book-illustration has no room for improvement, such is the excellence of this work...