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...centre of educational interests is in Tokyo, the capital of the empire, where the Imperial University and a large number of inferior institutions are located. It is estimated that in Tokyo alone there is a student population of twenty thousand. The Imperial University comprises six departments: Law, Literature, Science, Medicine, Technology and Agriculture. Closely connected with the university are five government and two private colleges which are preparatory to the professional schools. The enrollment of the university is about twelve hundred and that of the colleges about three thousand. The most prominent departments of the university are those of Medicine...
...recently received 4,200 volumes of the annals, debates and records of Congress, the most complete set of its kind, it is claimed, which is in existence. Dr. J. Lawrence Laughlin, Professor of Political Economy, purchased the collection in Washington, in the name of the University, for five thousand dollars. The nucleus of the collection was made by Senator Barnum of Connecticut, who succeeded in obtaining a complete set of the first fifteen Congresses. Of all publications made by the government, these are the most rare; a complete set is not even possessed by the Senate or the House. Since...
...said that the civilization of the present is infinitely better than that of two thousand years ago, and men are willing to grant that this fact is largely due to the teaching of Christ. But people are often in doubt as to whether Christianity can cope with the problems of today. Sometimes it seems as if the world was not growing better,- as if the problems were growing more complicated and the spirit of Christianity could not be the force to meet them. It this were so we should have to grant that the spirit of Christ had been...
...conditions of the unemployed classes in all the great cities in the United States. Most of his information has been obtained from some three hundred replies received to a circular of inquiry sent to public officials and other citizens of all cities in the United States of over twenty thousand inhabitants, as well as of many smaller places. The data thus obtained carry the question down almost to date. The different states are separately considered, and in each case is given the number and condition of the unemployed, and the measures adopted by the municipalities, by organizations and individuals...
ECONOMICS 1.- A new edition of a Synopsis of Mill's Principles of Political Economy, revised to date. This book of about one hundred pages contains the main working principles of the larger text books of over one thousand pages It is of inestimable aid to the student in preparing for the weekly written questions and will save hours of study in preparation for the mid-year and final examinations...