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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...When only ten years old Goethe wrote Latin correctly, and while still a child delighted in entertaining his youthful mates with strange stories. In 1765 he went to Leipsig to study law. He found poetry, however, more interesting, and returned to Frankfort, but afterward completed his legal education at Strasburg. With his entering into Strasburg came the beginning of his intellectual wakening, for the sight of the great cathedral and his falling in love with the village pastor's daughter furnished him themes for many of his most famous lyrics. In 1775 he left for a short visit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Asst. Prof. Bartlett's Lecture. | 12/13/1889 | See Source »

...Buckingham '87, has resigned his position as instructor in Physics. He has gone to Europe to study at Strasburg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 9/27/1889 | See Source »

Under the head of "Correspondence" is given an extract from a letter from a graduate residing at Strasburg University, describing the process of "swearing in" and the management of his work. Two book reviews and the "Advocate Brief" complete the number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 1/14/1889 | See Source »

...Among these books are several valumes from the press of Peter Schoeffer, three or four from that of Mentelin at Strasburg, the representatives of those of Ulrich Zell, Arnold Terhoernen and Bartholomaeus de Unket at Cologne, Zainer and Sorg at Augsburg, Creussmer and Koburger at Nuremberg, of Bartolomeo di Cremona, Ratdolf, John of Cologne and Scotus at Venice, of Caxton and Wynkyn de Norde and Pynson and Berthelet in England and of many other famous presses throughout Europe. Especially represented among these early books are those which throw light upon the development of natural science. Such are the editions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 2/3/1887 | See Source »

...institution that comes anywhere near our ideal of what a university, in the proper sense of the word, ought to be. We have made great, very great progress during the past twenty-five years, but we have nothing like the great universities of Vienna, Leipsic, Berlin, or even Strasburg, not to speak of Oxford and Cambridge, in England. Ezra Cornell, himself not a liberally educated man, gave one of the best definitions of a university when he said that he would found an institution where anybody could learn anything. On the side of teaching, we have not enough teachers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT ELIOT ON UNIVERSITIES. | 5/12/1883 | See Source »

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