Word: christiania
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Axel Paulsen, the Norwegian skater, has challenged Frank Dowd, the Canadian champion, to skate him in Christiania, Norway, next year, for a distance of from two to fifty miles for the championship of the world...
...University of Christiania, by a unanimous vote of the Odelsthing, has been empowered to place female students on exactly the same footing as male with regard to examinations and scholarships. Women have been allowed to attend the lectures of the university for the last two years...
...colonial universities and colleges will be represented by some eighty delegates. Harvard will be represented by her professor of belleslettres, Mr. Lowell, who has also been selected to represent Cornell. It is also expected the following European universities will send delegates. Halle, Gottingen, Leipzig, Upsala, Jena, Berlin, Kiel, Christiania, Ghent, Zurich, St. Petersburg, Helsingfors, Cracow, Pesth, Paris, Lund and Louvain. Medals to celebrate this great event in the history of the Scottish university will be struck from gold and silver. Among the contemplated ceremonies will be the conferring of the degrees of D. D. and L. L. D. upon distinguished...