Word: european
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...were such a course started and conducted on an intelligent basis, it would be largely attended. Many men enter college and pass from day to day with very meagre ideas of that which is doing in the world about them. Congressional reforms have little interest for them, and present European politics are too complicated and need too patient study to be carefully followed. This is simply the result of one's finding himself set down in the whirl of events without an understanding of their causes; and to counteract this result a course in the topics...
Marshal Livingston Perrin, Harvard '74, who for the last two or three years has been, by official appointment, Lector of English in the Gottingen University, has been appointed instructor in the North European languages and literatures in Boston University...
Frequent demands have been made during the last few years for a course in contemporaneous history, but hither-to without success. Next year, however, Professor Cohn proposes to give a course upon the actual state of European affairs, including such questions as Home Rule, the Bulgarian Question, the relation of the Great Powers to each other, etc. The newspapers will be used from time to time in connection with the other text books. The course is French 11, a course in French conversation, therefore only those who are able to understand French will profit by this opportunity...
Dohm, of Princeton, has declined the offers of both the N. Y. A. C. and the M. A. C. to a place on their European teams...
Austria has more public libraries than any European country. These number 577, with a total of 73,475,000 volumes, not counting maps and manuscripts...