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Dates: during 1873-1873
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However this may be, certain it is that a grand movement was inaugurated in favor of education, - a movement, however, which had not the time to produce results before Bonaparte was on the spot. He wished to crush the Revolution, which had scarcely yet laid out its work, and he...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNIVERSITY OF FRANCE. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

Napoleon was a soldier, and he regarded France in the light of a vast army. Thus it happens that we have those barracks that are called colleges, and those half-military uniforms with which the students are afflicted. It is even a subject of gratitude that they were not also...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNIVERSITY OF FRANCE. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

In lieu of this there were grades, ranks, and professors really officers, responsible themselves to the commander-in-chief, called the Grand-Master of the University.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNIVERSITY OF FRANCE. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

Thus, it will be seen, everything centred in the University, and it was thence that all this machinery took its motive power. To-day the system is the same, with the exception of some modifications of detail. The Grand-Master no longer exists, being superseded by the Minister of Public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNIVERSITY OF FRANCE. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

The council is differently constituted, the church element being now represented as well as the laity. Nevertheless, the system itself has undergone no essential change since the year 1808, when Napoleon I. instituted it. Now that we have become acquainted with the organization of the University, and the relation to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNIVERSITY OF FRANCE. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

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