Word: sweden
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...unique glory of having never closed her universities to women, there having been female graduates from time to time since the fifteenth century. In modern times-i. e., within the last twenty years-the universities have been more or less entirely thrown open to women in France, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, and Spain; but still remain closed in Germany, Austria, Portugal, Poland, and Bohemia.-[Academy...
...accession consisted of the library of the Elector of Palatine, captured at Heidelberg and presented to Gregory XV., in 1625. It contained 4,838 manuscripts. In 1658, there were added 1,711 Greek and Latin Manuscripts, from the Library of Urbina. In 1700, the collection of Christina, Queen of Sweden, was added to the Library. It contained most of the literary treasures captured by her father, Gastavus Adolphus, at Prague, Wortzburg and Bremen. In 1745, the library of the Ottobuoni family was added, comprising 3,862 manuscripts. In 1815, after peace with Prussia had been made, Pope Pius VII. restored...
...Thomas of Maine has been appointed minister resident to Sweden and Norway, and Henry White of Maryland United States secretary of legation to Vienna...
...prohibited from taking a medical course, and in 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...
Women are admitted to the State universities of Sweden, on terms of perfect equality with men. In Germany none of the universities are open to women. Leipzig, where they were once allowed to attend certain lectures, has now closed its doors to them absolutely...