Word: russians
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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While we are constantly hearing of the German and English, relatively little is said of the great Russian universities. Of these there were nine in 1882, attended by 10.500 students, and with a corps of 710 professors. Being comparatively young they have not till recently exerted a very decided influence on the world of science. Yet in the last twenty-five years wonderful strides have been made in certain branches of scientific research. For example, from 1830-60 not a single special investigation was made by a Russian university professor. From 1863-82 there were more than six hundred...
...occasional leave of absence is granted for an extended trip to Siberia. This rustication is not preceded by a warning or a summons. U. 5 would have no terrors for a Russian. On the whole, their student life is as far behind the German as the latter is behind the English or American. The universities, however, exert a powerful influence on national thought and life...
...Russian universities are now strictly watched, detachments of troops being quartered in them, at the expense of the institutions themselves...
...three serials, there are several papers which are of value to thoughtful readers. The chief of these is a sketch by Clara Barnes Martin, called " The Mother of Turgeneff," which gives a curious account of the early influences which surround the great novelist, and a striking picture of Russian home-life fifty years ago. Two articles, " Time in Shakespeare's Comedies," by Henry A. Clapp, and " The Consolidation of the Colonies," by Brooks Adams, together with a paper called " The Brown-Stone Boy," and a Mexican travel paper, " A Plunge into Summer," by Sylvester Baxter, complete the longer articles...
...down room containing shower and douche baths. In the basement of the house are six bowling alleys and rooms for tricycles and bicycles. These complete the list of athletic features; but there is one other department mention of which ought not to be omitted. That is the Turkish and Russian baths on the first floor. These are very large and complete, accommodations for thirty men being provided. Connected with them is a splendid cold water swimming tank. It is the finest thing in the whole building, and is 70 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 13 feet deep...