BERLIN 



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Outline and Questions on 

 Berlin 



I. Size and Location 



(1) Rank among world's cities 



(a) City proper 



(b) Greater Berlin 



(2) Population 



(3) Position with reference to other 



large cities 



II. Description 



(1) Streets 



(a) Unter-den-Linden 



(2) Public buildings 



( 3 ) Monuments 



(4) Educational institutions 

 (a) University of Berlin 



(5) Museums and galleries 



(6) Drama 



III. Commerce and Industry 



(1) Communication 



(2) Trade 



( 3 ) Manufactures 



(a) Machinery 



(b) Brewing 



(c) Other products 



IV. Government 



(1) Functions of the Department of 



the Interior 



(2) Local officials 



(a) Mayors 



(b) Council 



V. History 



(1) Early history 



(2) The Great Elector 



(3) The city's newness 



Questions 



What is there unusual about the his- 

 tory of the University of Berlin? 



During what century did the city 

 have its greatest growth? 



What is the most noted street in 

 Berlin? 



How large a proportion of the peo- 

 ple earn their living from manufac- 

 tures? 



Why can it be said that Berlin 

 ranks both third and flfth among the 

 cities of the world? 



In what English dramatists are the 

 people especially interested? 



What change has there been in the 

 sanitary conditions of the city since it 

 became the capital? 



What place is as far from the equa- 

 tor on the south as Berlin is on the 

 north? 



With what American city may it be 

 compared in respect to its trade in a 

 great commodity? 



What is the most imposing build- 

 ing? 



How did the city commemorate the 

 German victories in the Franco- 

 German War? 



What ruler laid the foundation for 

 the greatness of Berlin? 



What city of North America is In 

 the same latitude? 



What is the tallest building in the 

 city? 



How does Berlin rank among the 

 cities of Germany as regards art and 

 literature? 



make it a great capital. More than anything 

 else, the new national spirit of the German 

 nation made this result possible in a short time. 

 Berlin has been one of the cleanest and most 

 healthful cities in Europe, but after the flight 

 of the emperor in November, 1918, it entered 

 upon a period of stress. Fighting among fac- 

 tions for control took its heavy toll of deaths. 

 Gunfire damaged stately government buildings. 

 Order was certain to follow after hysteria 

 passed, but should the new republic survive, 

 Berlin will miss for many years the pomp and 

 splendor of the court of its Hohenzollerns. 



University of Berlin, an institution of learn- 

 ing, which, though it does not date back to 

 the Middle Ages as do so many of the great 

 European universities, has attained a com- 

 manding position among the universities of the 

 world. Plans for founding it were begun during 

 the latter part of the eighteenth century, but 

 the Napoleonic struggle interfered, and not 

 until 1810 was it really established. Its full 

 name is the Royal Frederick Wilhelm Uni- 

 versity of Berlin, for it was founded during 

 the reign of Frederick Wilhelm III of Prussia. 

 After somewhat more than a century of exist- 

 ence, it stands as the most prominent uni- 

 versity of Germany, and during its history it 

 has numbered many illustrious scholars among 

 its instructors, of whom may be mentioned 

 the Grimm brothers, Hegel, Fichte, Ranke, 

 Virchow, Mommsen, Niebuhr, Treitschke, 

 Helmholtz and Harnack. In its departments 

 of theology, law, medicine and philosophy, 

 there was, before the outbreak of the War of 

 the Nations (1914), a combined enrollment of 

 almost 11,000 students. Several American 

 universities have exchanged professorships 

 with the University of Berlin. Attached to the 

 university are the Royal Library, one of the 

 largest libraries in the world, housed in a 

 beautiful new palace; the technological, agri- 

 cultural and veterinary institutes, and the so- 

 called "institute for research." W.F.Z. 



Consult Siepen's Berlin; Shaw's Municipal 

 Government in Continental Europe. There are 

 no books printed in America relating particu- 

 larly to Berlin, but the above English books are 

 available. 



BERLIN, a town in Ontario, since 1916 

 known as KITCHENER (which see). 



BERLIN, CONGRESS OF, an assembly of repre- 

 sentatives of the powers of Europe which 

 emphasized the fact that Turkey in Europe 

 was not to become the prey of any one nation, 

 and that questions relating to it were to be 

 settled in conference. By victories in the 



