Word: petersburg
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...short contribution, "A Widow of Appomattox to her Son," there is little to say. A faithful mother tells to her son, who is with the Confederate army in the defenses at Petersburg, the vision she has had of his safe return to her side at Appomattox. There is deep pathos in the story...
...University of St. Petersburg has been reopened by permission of the Czar...
...well-turned lines and fairly well chosen words. There is, however, too much of the artificial sentimental in it to permit us to call it a very promising effort. There is not much to be said for "Anna Polanova" a story placed in the high life of St. Petersburg. There are enough larynxruffling gutterals in the name of the various "vitches" and "ovnas" to make a careless reader believe that it is a powerful Russian story, but a closer perusal will show that things are not always what they seem. It takes more than a few well-compounded consonants...
...following particulars as to the present condition of the University of St. Petersburg are taken from the official annual report of that institution: On January 1, 1836, the number of ordinary professors was 41, of extraordinary 20, with 8 lecturers. The total of students amounted to 2282, of whom 638 had just matriculated, and 525 came from the classical gymnasia. There were, moreover, 146 free attendants at lectures. The members are divided as follows, according to the faculties. Two hundred and fifty-two are ascribed to history and philology, 968 to physics and mathematics, 921 to jurisprudence, 79 to Oriental...
...Russian Government is about to establish at St. Petersburg, a Polyglot college, where perhaps eighty-five languages will be taught. A Russian professor, himself speaking over a score of languages, is about to publish Mezzofanti's method of learning a foreign tongue. "Every man of average capability can learn any foreign language within a month," says the Professor, "and whoever fails is lazy or a stupid fellow...