Word: european
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students will be graduates of other colleges, and will go to Clark University to take advanced courses in mental and physical science, instead of going to German universities as is the present custom. The object is thus to establish an American university which will be able to vie with European ones...
...intercollegiate record by 2 3-5s. Princeton has sent strong representatives to almost all the games. One of its men, Dohm, has won an enviable reputation in nearly every contest in running the quarter-mile. While abroad during the summer, he broke many of the best records of European athletes, and his work during his return has rarely been surpassed...
...weather bureau have been established. Five hundred thousand dollars have been spent upon new buildings during the last year. Of the 1174 students, 708 come from New York state; all states and territories are represented, besides a number of students from Japan, Brazil, Sandwich Islands, and all European countries excepting Austria. Co-education is rapidly growing in favor, and there are 132 ladies attending college...
...vast effort is being made to overcome the apathy and inertia of the people and the corruption of the government in order to develop the latent capacity of the people for social progress. Schools and museums have been founded, European ideas of justice have been introduced, and the country is flooded with translations of French and European books to the exclusion of native literature...
...presented by the Turkish of ficials seem to stand in the way of success. Babylonia is covered with large artificial mounds marking the ruins of palaces, temples and cities, still burying libraries and sculptures of priceless value. Few of these have yet been touched by the spade of the European...