Word: stockholm
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...principal accessions to the Museum were exchanges with the Stockholm and British Museums and gifts from the Smithsonian Institute. The Hume collection of Indian birds selected for the Museum by the British Museum reached Cambridge in excellent condition, and proved by far the most valuable acquisition of the year. The condition of the various c?????????????ections continue to improve, and many empty places have been filled. The arrangements of the Palaeontological Exhibition, however, is now at a standstill, owing to a lack of funds. The collection of fossils is very valuable, and it seems a great pity that it should...
...following course of musical and literary entertainment has been instituted at Amherst: December 5, reading of Midsummer Nights' Dream, by E. F. Thompson, accompanied by Listemann's Orchestra of Boston; January 18, Swedish Ladies' quartette, of Stockholm, and Edward T. Phelan, humorist; February 14, lecture by Mr. George Kennan; February 27, Bill Nye and John Whitcomb Riley; March 4, New York Philharmonic Club...
...Justin McCarthy's novels have been translated into Swedish and published at Stockholm...
...Universities offers one feature which may be of interest, after the numerous descriptions of duelling and fighting organizations in the German institutions of learning. Sweden is divided into a number of provinces. These provinces, individually or in groups, together with two or three of the principal cities, such as Stockholm and Gothenburg, are represented in the universities by societies called "Nations." There are about a round dozen of these Nations, taking their names from the provinces or cities which they represent; the Gota Nation, from Gothenburg; Upland's Nation, Nerike's and Gefle, from provinces of the same names...
There are now three universities in Sweden, Upsala, Lund and Stockholm, named in the order of their importance. Upsala has between eighteen and nineteen hundred students, Lund about a thousand, and Stockholm, the youngest, a considerably smaller number. Admission to Stockholm does not necessitate a knowledge of Greek or Latin, while at Upsala and Lund they are required. The two latter universities have a somewhat arbitrary curriculum, while Stockholm gives a man great freedom of choice in his studies for a degree. By this course, although the youngest, she bids fair soon to rival even Upsala in wealth and numbers...