Word: weres
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Education itself has not escaped this inevitable law of centralization. For centuries schools and colleges have existed in France. Indeed, previous to the year 1789 there were already some twenty-one or twenty-two universities. The Revolution came, and with it a great upheaval in the social world. People felt...
Every old system was accordingly overthrown, and that of education among the rest. In the midst of the thunders of war the Convention did not forget that the first requisite for the foundation of a good republic was to raise up good citizens. It is not my purpose to criticise...
The twenty-one universities were united in one central institution, where, as upon a common trunk, the different branches of the system took their rise. This is called the University of France.
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...
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.