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...Russia there is one German university at Dorpat, with seventy-three teachers and one thousand two hundred and seventy-seven students...
...dean of the college in his report states that discipline among the students has required the action of the faculty in but few cases during the year, and that on all ordinary occasions the unruly element, which may be presumed to exist in any body of a thousand young men, is kept in control by the powerful sentiment of the great majority, which has proved a far more effective instrument for the maintenance of good order and gentlemanly conduct than the system of minute regulations formerly in force. The college library has received an accession of 8441 books during...
Matthew Arnold will probably be the next secretary of the Education Department at a salary of two thousand pounds per annum...
...empire, the longest known Europeans, has undergone less change than any other great centre of population in China. It remains precisely as it was hundreds of years ago, and when once the wall is passed the traveler might for all he can see, be at least a thousand miles from any Western influence. And there is this to be remarked in passing, that though since the eighth century they have been acquainted with foreigners, they like them no better than they did then, and are as ready to be hostile and aggressive to them as they ever were...
...small cells. These run in rows, and are numbered; they are each about nine feet high, five and a half feet long, and three feet eight inches wide. Each candidate takes a call, and at daylight receives a paper with which he must deal without leaving the place. Three thousand policemen and servants are near at hand to see that he doesn't play any tricks, and his head would probably be the penalty if he attempted to do so. Next morning he hands in his paper and departs for a day's rest, returning twenty-four hours afterward...