The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-09-12
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Correspondence of The Clarion.
BERLIN. PRUssIA,
August ID, 1872

August ID, ls725
EDTroks CLARION -
After days work, visiting the most inn
portant places, propose to rest myself by
writing you a short letter.
During the past month have been visit
ing the principal Colleges aud Universities
of America and Europe, TO sec the methods
adopted by the most successful, and to note
the progress made in schoOl-keeping. From
this place intend visiting the Colleges In
Vienna, Rome, Paris, Edinburgh, Oxford
and Cam bridge, and IL possible, return TO
the Athenaum in time for the next session,
which begins on the first Monday in Sep
TENDER.
In Germany. where there are so many
llne colleges, each University Is almost GER
/ tain to establish for itself great fame ia
some one branch of learning, and thus Ber-
| lin has the reputation of being the best col
lege for medicine. In approaching the
University by the principal street OF Berlin
"Unter den linden we first pass the Acade-
my, which is fine building, adorned with
numerous works OF art. The University
proper is quite large and stately, and gives
good idea of the appearance that a Ger
nIan university ought 20 present. This be-
| ing vacation, most of the professors are
away enjoying the summer, SO that It is i'm
possible 10 see the working of the Univer-
sity, though one may form some notion of
IL from what may be seen in the handsome
grounds and buildings. The Prussian sys-
tenn of education, which is excellent, re-
qures very thorough education in the
primary schools, SO that the students must
be thoroughly prepared before entering the
university.
BerIin~ AS you know, has some OF the
finest hotels in Europe, all very well regu-
lated, aud in the most desirable parts OF the
city on the Linden promenade. For inter-
nal decoration and good living they resem-
BILE some of the best hotels In Paris. This
has something to do with making Berlin
one of the largest and handsomest cities in
Europe. Berlin has more than sixty church.
es, thirty-seven bridges, one hundred public
schools and AS many ola private descIip-
ton. Its charitable and scientific institu-
lions are very numerous, and its manufac-
lures are celebrated for locomotives, wool,
cotton, silk, ribbons, porcelain, stoneware,
bronze, gold aud silverware, straw hats,
artificial flowers, etc.
One of the finest monuments Is the eaues-
TRAN statue OF Frederick the Great by
Raesch. The royal palace is one of the most
imposing buildings of the kind in the world.
The new museum is very chaste edifice
built after the plan of the architect Schinkle.
Before the museum there is IA gigantic basin
cut out of one solid piece ofgranite twenty
two feet in diameter; the fore colonnade is
adorned with beautiful designs ia fresco by
Cornelius. Among the bronzes there is "A
very beautiful antique found in the Tiber.
1t is an admirable work OF art; the subject
is boy praying. The collection of paint
ings abounds in works of the old masters.
The royal library contains some five hun
dred thousand volumes and five hundred
manuscripts. Here we find the first book
printed with movable types. The natural
history museum, the geological cabinet and
the beautiful university building are wor-
thy of particular attention, and the arsenal
built in 1896 10y Schleuter is considered a
master-work in the pure style of archtec-
ture.
But am In danger of writing what is an
abomiuation TO editors, a long letter. SO l
will close by rendering my best wishes for
yourselves and your most excellent paper.
With highest regards remain,
Yours truly,
VIM. A. SMITH, A. NJ.
Professor of Moral Philosophy in the
CQlum bia, Tennessee, Atheneum.