Word: russianness
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...complaint about the condition of the students in the Russian universities is today as well founded as ever. One or two universities absorb the few conspicuous men of science there are; the other universities are content with luminaries of the second rank; the intermediate schools feed on half-culture, and the elementary schools on the wisdom of drill-sergeants. Thus the boy enters the university with mere scraps of knowledge, acquired with the last remnant of his father's money. The poor village priest has sacrificed his all in order to secure to his son a position in life better...
Rear-Admiral Baldwin has been ordered to attend the coronation of the Russian Czar, accompanied by his personal staff...
Eighteen prominent Russian nihilists were condemned at St. Petersburg yesterday, and six of the number are sentenced to death...
...present there are women studying at both these places. France not only allows women to attend the lectures at most of her colleges, but graduates are permitted to practice their chosen professions. The present attitude of the French government towards the movement is said to be very favorable. Several Russian ladies have followed the medical course at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Eight years ago, over a hundred lady students were at this university, but now the number is considerably less from political reasons. Nearly all the educational institutions of Italy are, and have been for years, open...
...students indulge in such ferocious tricks on new pupils that death has several times been the result. It was an occurrence of this kind that caused the atelier of Paul Delaroche to be closed when that master went to Italy, taking his pupil Gerome with him. The rising Russian painter, Basile Vereschagin, on entering the studio of Picot to learn the rudiments of his art, refused to be made the victim of the rough treatment to which it was proposed to subject him. This consisted in attaching the new-comer's head downwards to a ladder, and then blowing tobacco...