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DURING the past seven years Poland has suffered all the miseries of war. Amid the desolation in which the country was plunged, the votaries of science did their best, until 1919, to uphold the interests of study and education against inimical and contending Governments; since the Polish State was resuscitated they have been engaged in laying the foundation of the work of the future. In 1914 only two Polish universities (Cracow, Lwow) were in existence; in 1922 five large State-endowed universities are actively at work; the University of Warsaw was started in 1915, those of Poznan and Wilno in 1919. Centres of technical teaching and research are springing up; in Warsaw and Lwow important colleges of mechanical and electrical engineering, of applied chemistry, of architecture, etc., are well attended, and in 1919 a High School of Mines was established in Cracow. These institutions are sufficiently equipped with appliances required for practical teaching.
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N., L. Science in Poland. Nature 109, 278–279 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109278a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/109278a0