Word: russians
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Russian universities of Kieff and Kasan have been closed owing to riotous outbreaks. They are following the example of the University of Moscow...
There is to be a public toboggan slide built on the Union Athletic Grounds, in Boston. The will be two slides in opposite directions after the Russian style...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Will you allow me to call attention to a course of lectures which a Harvard graduate is now delivering at the Hawthorne Rooms? The subject, "Russian Literature," is one which at present attracts wide interest among cultivated persons, and the fact that the lecturer, Mr. Ivan Panin, is himself a Russian, adds to the value of the lectures. It is certainly worthy of attention that we have here an opportunity of knowing what a Russian, educated at Harvard, and able to compare the works of his countrymen with those of Western Europeans and Americans, puts upon Puschkin...
...very promising effort. There is not much to be said for "Anna Polanova" a story placed in the high life of St. Petersburg. There are enough larynxruffling gutterals in the name of the various "vitches" and "ovnas" to make a careless reader believe that it is a powerful Russian story, but a closer perusal will show that things are not always what they seem. It takes more than a few well-compounded consonants to make a good story Russian Turkish or Chinese. Some minor verses and book notices make up the rest of the number...
...Russian government recently established a university at Tomsk, Siberia...