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...students of more favored institutions of learning, both here and in other countries, it is particularly gratifying to be able to point out some peculiarities in which we have a decided advantage over the students of many European colleges. But recently we heard of the arrest of many Russian students for implication in Nihilis plots. This, however, is no new occurrence. For years the universities and higher colleges of Russia have been infected with spirit of disloyalty towards the government, which has often been the cause of collisions with the local authorities and in some cases in exile to Siberia...
...Russia, on Thursday evening in Sever 11. The lecturer, speaking from personal experience, displayed great knowledge of his subject and held the close attention of his audience to the end of his address. Dr. Vetter passed four years in Russia. He was first engaged as tutor to a young Russian nobleman but was afterwards connected with the Imperial University of Moscow and the Lyceum of Nicholas. He spoke in substance as follows. The children of the lower orders in Russia grow up in about the same manner as the children of other nations of Europe. They are taught to reverence...
...Russian journal contains an account of a conversation between Turgeneff and some literary friends in which the novelist is reported to have said of Victor Hugo: "In the course of a talk with me on Goethe he expressed the opinion that he couldn't find anything great in the writings of that author. When I drew his attention to the fact," continues Turgeneff, "that 'Wallenstein's Camp' was by Schiller, and not by Goethe, he answered: 'That is all the same thing-Goethe and Schiller, they are fruits of the same tree; and believe me that I know, even without...
...Pall Mall Gazette says: "One of the greatest mathematicians of our time is a lady of one of the highest Russian families, Mme. Kovaleffski, the well-known Russian naturalist. She took the doctor's degree in 1874 at Gottingen, and is said to be enthusiastically devoted to her profession...
...Cambridge Dramatic Club gave the last performance of the Russian Honeymoon yesterday evening...