Identifier: americanaunivers07newy (find matches)
Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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entralstudies of mind discipline) grant the sameprivileges as to admission to the universities.A wholesome competition of the three kinds ofschools may now be expected. It is quite inconsonance with this policy that the emperorendeavored to raise the standing, in the soci.alestimation, of the men of practical aflfairs, busi-ness, industries, technology, to the level of mili-tary or civil ofiicers or professinn;d men. Thegreat technical universities (Polytcchnikcn)were given the privilege of granting degrees ofDoctor of Engineering and they arc also repre-sented now in the Upper House of the PrussianDiet. Prussia in this set the pace for the otherGerman States. The German navy as it is to-day. by nomeans the largest, but perhaps one of the mostefficient, modern, and well equipped for navalwarfare, is almost exclusively the work of Wil-liam II.s initiative and untiring agitation. Thenation, at first, was quite unwilling to enter ona scheme of extensive naval construction. Grad- GERMANY.
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WILLIAM II.. EMPEROR OF GERMANY,IN .\d.mir.\ls uniform. GERMANY — POLITICAL HISTORY ually only the enthusiasm of the young men wasable to win over the cautious older generations.Recent developments, though, beginning withthe Spanish war of the United States, the Boerwar, and most of all the Japanese-Russian sea-fights, have brought about the determination ofthe German nation to build a navy so strong asto be independent of any ones good will andmercv in the protection of its own interests,colonial and commercial. The recent Delcasseincident with its revelations has confirmed thisdetermination. Immediately after the Moroccandifficulties had disclosed the intentions of Eng-land and France against Germany, the Reichs-tag, for the first time in its history, voted unani-mously and without much debate the adoptionof the naval budget of the government. Wil-liam II. has his nation, the socialistic iconoclastsexcepted, behind him in this greatest nationalproblem. William II. has been conspic

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