Word: russian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...bring the most envy to the soul of the long-suffering Harvard man is that which is devoted to the baths. When one hears of twenty-one shower baths, he looks with rueful comparison at the accommodations which the Hemenway gymnasium at present offers. Besides this, there are Turkish, Russian, and ordinary baths. These are nickel plated, put in at an expense of $500 each, and are provided with thermometers to regulate the temperature of the water. Adjoining these showers are sweating and rubbing rooms, and a circular, hot air drying room with a glass dome, and a lounging parlor...
...Russian Imperial government has granted $200,000 for a medical school for women, to be established in St. Petersburg...
...thoronghly artistic in every way. The plot is very simple - an ordinary love affair, - but it is worked out in exactly the right way. There is nothing unnatural in any of the conversations or situations, yet there is plenty of the unconventional and unexpected. The descriptions of the various Russian scenes which from the background of the story - morning in St. Petersburg, the drosky-driver, Russian tea, and the Imperial guard review - are perhaps the best part of the story, for they exhibit a keenness of observation and strength of diction which are not apparent in many Advocate stories...
Five hundred students of the University of Kief have been arrested by the Russian government for revolutionary actions...
...there is scarcely a suggestion of a plot in the two articles which are avowedly fiction. "The Princess Barietinsky" approaches nearest of any of them to a story and is the most finished piece o prose of the number. The delineation of the character of the princess, a hypocritical Russian woman is the another's chief object and it is certainly well done. Her charming personality, the rapt admiration of Protopop off for her, and her detestable double dealing are vividly portrayed...