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...surprised to see Progress retailing such silly talk as the following : "There is a street-car conductor in Chicago who is a college graduate, and can also converse in all the modern languages. He might, you know, be a college graduate and still be ignorant of French, German, etc. This conductor (and he is not, it would be safe to wager, the only one of his kind in the country) does not agree that his education has been of important service to him in his struggle for existence. When in need it did not secure for him a better place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UTILITY OF A COLLEGE EDUCATION. | 11/26/1883 | See Source »

Over twenty thousand scholars in the St. Louis schools study German. This is one-half the number of pupils enrolled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 11/23/1883 | See Source »

Chas. T. Libbey, tutor in Freshman Mathematics and German. College House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPECIAL NOTICES. | 11/23/1883 | See Source »

Chas. T. Libbey, tutor in Freshman Mathematics and German. College House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPECIAL NOTICES. | 11/22/1883 | See Source »

Prof. Maassen, of the Vienna University, who was hissed by the students last spring for his anti-German speech in the Diet, met with the same fate today in the splendid building on the Ringstrasse, which the University has just taken possession of. In the course of his inaugural lecture he referred to the "unpleasant events" of last term, whereupon some hundreds of the students burst out as before into cries of "Pereat" and cheers for their "German" Professors. About 300 of them then rose and left the room, but when Dr. Maassen ordered the doors to be closed they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS' RIOTS IN VIENNA. | 11/22/1883 | See Source »