CHARLES UNIVERSITY

at Prague, Czech Republic; also called Univ. of Prague. The oldest and one of the most important universities of central Europe, it was founded in 1348 by Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, for whom it is named. The faculty was organized in four so-called nations, the Czech, Saxon, Bavarian, and Polish. The struggle between the German and Czech nationalities in Bohemia was reflected in the university when, in 1403, the Czech nation, including Jan Huss, was outvoted by the three other nations in a controversy regarding John Wyclif's doctrines. When in 1409 the three foreign nations opposed the request of Holy Roman Emperor Wenceslaus to take a neutral attitude between the two rival popes in the Great Schism, Wenceslaus changed the statutes of the university. By the Decree of Kutna Hora he gave three votes to the Czech nation and one vote to the other three nations. Shortly after that Czech victory, Huss himself became rector of the university. As a result of the Decree of Kutna Hora the Germans left the university and founded the Univ. of Leipzig. The Germanization of the university, which began after the battle of the White Mt. (1620), reached its peak in 1774 when German was made the language of instruction. In 1882 the university was divided into two branches—Charles Univ., which was Czech, and Ferdinand Univ., which was German. After the establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1918 this division was maintained, although the Czech university received the greater facilities. The German university was abolished after World War II. The university currently has faculties of education, law, mathematics and physics, medicine, pharmacy, philosophy, physical training, social sciences, and theology. There are institutes of social and political sciences and economics.

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...IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME I CHARLES W. ELIOT President of Harvard University 1869-1909 BY HENRY JAMES...a century since the late Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard...attempts to paint a portrait of Charles William Eliot with that minimum...
...SUBSTANCE OF THE CHARLES ELIOT NORTON LECTURES...DELIVERED BEFORE HARVARD UNIVERSITY 1930-1931 BY...bistre wash. University College, London...white. Collection of Charles Ricketts and Charles...desire to know the university founded by her most...late Professor Charles Eliot Norton, but...
...STUDIES TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY Charles Sanders Peirce: Contributions...of the Papers of Charles S. Peirce, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press...Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966. Cohen, Morris R. Charles S. Peirce and a Tentative...
...now turned to the methods and modes of teaching in the great university. In 1883 he delivered the Phi Beta Kappa address entitled...attention, but excited abundant criticism and discussion which Charles Adams always enjoyed. From that time forward, for nearly a...
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...markers. The case of Charles M. Goethe and Sacramento State University provides a window...arboretum. The universitys web site identifies Charles M. Goethe as "Sacramentos...California; and in the Charles M. Goethe Collection, University Archives, California...
The 2003 Charles H. Thompson Lecture-colloquium...Presentation: Ralph Bunche: University and Diplomatic Legacies...which are explicated in Charles Henrys article in this...nexuses between the life of university and the necessity of addressing...
...piece in the Yale Review was to identify, describe, and explain that beginning evening. It happened when Charles was a freshman at the University of Texas, in Austin, his hometown. Charles recalled it this way...
...of inventing the past--to hail Charless coming as the crowning event of his new deanship and to name Charles to a specially created university chair, the Luce Professorship. Rostow could do this with confidence for he had understood what we would...
...lawyers and judges of this city, and many others, gather together to join in celebrating Charless life. We welcome you all to this celebration. Columbia Universitys President George Rupp asked me to convey his regrets that he could not be with us...
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...Nations First out University President, Charles R. Middleton Is Determined...In early March, Charles R. Middleton, with...president of Roosevelt University, a school with 7,500...president of a major U.S. university. Named after Franklin...
...be a millionaire: Charles Glass is studying...professor at Howard University, is trying to become...before age 40, its Charles Glass. The 31-year-old Howard University professor earned...engineering from the University of Colorado, where...
...the Motherland Has It All. Charles R. Stith, Former U.S. Ambassador...Research Center at Boston University, Knows Africa as Well as Any...Tourist Destinations. by Charles R. Stith ILLUSTRATION...a faculty member of Boston Universitys International Relations Department...
Lewitzky Dance Company, Harriet Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State University, Los Angeles, May 17-18, 1997 by Donna Perlmutter There were no diva turns, no goddess goodbyes, and not a touch...
...Life: Michael Ray Charles by Kendra...Professor of Art, University of Texas at Austin...of Michael Ray Charles, associate professor of art at the University of Texas at Austin...McNeese State University in Lake Charles. Halfway through...
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...Cambridge; WITH More Beautiful Buildings per Square Mile Than Anywhere Else in England, This Historic University Towns Famous Students Range from Charles Darwin and Peter Cook to Borats Sacha Baron Cohen. Its Also the Spot to Discover the Lost Art...
...you can say about yourself? My name is Charles Saatchi and I am an artoholic. What advice...watch hours of TV. My favourites are University Challenge and Match Of The Day, and almost...these questions appear in My Name Is Charles Saatchi And I Am An Artoholic, which...
...its error. Some Church people did it again in the 1860s with Charles Darwins theory of natural selection. So it is important to...over his ideas took place in 1860 during a debate at Oxford University. The Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce, asked the evolutionist...
...received the clerical tonsure and was sent to the Benedictine Abbey to study Latin. He also studied at the University of Pavia. At 22, St. Charles was named Secretary of State and made Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan by Pope Pius IV, his uncle. He...
...described him affectionately as "the Beast". Charles Joffe, who has died, aged 78, was a high...nightclubs while studying journalism at university. Realising he would not succeed as a...Christina Barcelona, starring Penelope Cruz. Charles Joffe, film producer; born, July 16...
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CHARLES UNIVERSITY at Prague, Czech Republic; also called Univ. of Prague...German was made the language of instruction. In 1882 the university was divided into two branches Charles Univ., which was Czech, and Ferdinand Univ., which was...
...portraits by Titian . Bibliography The classic works on Charles V are the biography by K. Brandi (1937, tr. 1939, repr. 1968...tr. 1970). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press...
CHARLES III , 839 88, French king (Charles the Fat) or Charles the Fat, French king: see Charles III , emperor of the West. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
...England in the Reign of Charles II (2 vol., 2d ed. 1962); J. R. Jones, Charles II: Royal Politician (1987). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights...
...contested on his death (see Austrian Succession, War of the ). Charles was a patron of learning and the arts, particularly of music...industry. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press...
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