Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they lack some of the vigor usually found in the editorials of the paper. The first article is "A Story of the South," a piece of composition of a high order. The climax of the story is very thrilling and the incidental dissertation of Mexican scenes are realistic. "The Swiss Yankee" is the title of an admirable bit of descriptive writing. The Swiss landscape in all its peacefulness and silent grandeur seems lying stretched out before the reader, while the account of the little guide has in it a vein of pathos which adds greatly to the sketch. The fate...
...even a lie. The elder Pliny was a grind, and Vitellius Spiculus was a grind. But they had brains and it paid them to grind. It is even said that the elder Pliny wore glasses. There is an old legend which is to-day told in one of the Swiss villages among the Alps, to the effect that the great Julius stopped there on his way to interview the mighty man of the Helvetii, and it was noticed that the great statesman never raised his eyes throughout his stay from an ancient manuscript, which rumor said had been sent...
Among the total of 4,635 students inscribed at the Berlin University for the winter term there are no fewer than winter term there are no fewer than 354 foreigners, of whom 23 are Austrians, 58 Hungarians, 74 Russians, 52 Swiss, 80 Americans, 9 Swedes, 6 French, 8 Japanese, and 3 African. Of English students' there are only...
...Switzerland the medical students have taken action against the admittance of women in their schools. The ground they take is that, if foreign women study medicine there, the Swiss women will desire to do the same, and make the profession more overcrowded than...
...University of Zurich 459 students have matriculated this winter. Of these 51 were women, 38 of whom entered for the medical classes, 17 for philosophy, and one for law. Eleven are Swiss, 17 Russian, 12 American, 9 German, 4 Australian, and 1 Rumanian...