Word: prussia
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...filled with a desire for union, for a strong centralized government. The causes of the growth of nationality lie in the political events of 1858, when William came to the throne, when the reactionary ministry of Mannteuffel gave way to the liberal policy of Autin von Hohenstaufen in Prussia's successful war of 1864 against Schleswig-Holstein and in the Prussian war of 1866. In the war of 1870 this national feeling shows itself perhaps at its best. This desire for union is manifest in the welcome which the emperor receives in all parts of Germany; also in this, that...
Among the foreign countries which have sent students to the Law School are: Japan, 7; Hawaiian Islands, 3; England, 2; France, 2; Prussia, 1; New Brunswick, 44; Nova Scotia, 24; Cape Breton, 6; and Prince Edward Island...
...sanction. The Bundesrath can veto any legislation of the Reichstag, and its vetoes are incontestable. In this is found the first obstacle to constitutional government in Germany. Under the present government a responsible ministry is an impossibility, which forms another obstacle. A third is found in the relation of Prussia to the Empire, at the head of which Prussia stands, with the Prussian king at the head of the government of the Empire. The success of this system necessitates the greatest harmony and most complete unity between Frussia and the rest of the Empire. Such a unity does not exist...
...Jena, in Prussia, has received a donation of $75,000 to found a chair in Zoology, in the interests of Darwinism.- Princetonian...
...Mikado" had a run of two months in Berlin this winter. Mikado teas and parties were the feature in Prussia's aristocratic society...