Identifier: americanaunivers08newy (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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.(x>o. .\ considerable portionof the debt incurred in recent years has beenin the way of raising loans for the making ofrailways. Of the foreig^n debt one lean is guar-anteed by Great Britain. France, and Russia,which have latterly had to pay the dividends oait, and which are now accordingly hea%y claim-ants on Greece. The paj-ment of the intereston its public debt has long been with Greece amatter of difriculty. Every male Greek on at-taining the age of 21 years is liable to militaryservice, his term being 2 years with thecolors, ID with the reser\-e, 8 in the nationalguard, and 10 in the national guard reserve. Thearmy in 1900 numbered about 25.000 on a peacefooting, expanding easily to 82.000 in time ofwar. The navy in 1903 consisted of 3 armor-clad ships. 19 torpedo-boats, besides several un-protected gun-vessels and cruisers. The popula-tion contains a considerable intermi.xture offoreign stocks, among which the .Mbanese, or.\mauts, are the most numerous: but the great GREECE.
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I, The Academy at Athens. 2. The University at Athens. GREECE majority, though not without some taint in theirblood, are of genuine Greek extraction, and,both in physical and mental features, bear amarked resemblance to their celebrated fore-fathers. It is true that the degrading bondageto which they were subjected for centuries hassunk them far below their natural level, and toooften substituted sycophancy and low cunningfor the intellectual superiority which, in earlierand better times, displayed itself in immortalproductions of the chisel and the pen; but that, the original elements of greatness still exist hasbeen proved by the noble struggles which theyhave made for independence. The educational; .system of Greece, organized in 1834 by George Gennadius, one of the leaders of the w-ar ofindependence, is very complete. There are threegrades of schools, the demotic or primary na-tional schools, the Hellenic or secondary gram-mar schools, and the gymnasia, in which, it isas.serted, t

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