Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germany, Mathematics and Science are taught, not from the material standpoint, but from the aspect of culture", declared Dr. Fritz Kellermann last night in Emerson D, when he delivered his second part of his lecture on "Recent influences and Tendencies in German Education". His subject fast night was "The Reichsechulkonferenz and the Resulting Reforms...
...Lastly there is the German Gymnasium, in which Mathematics and Science is not taught from the material side but from its cultural aspect...
...assumption of both a cultural and a racial aspect makes this renaissance the logical reaction to the fashionable Nordic propaganda of late years. But the suggestion of a cultural and racial alignment of Teuton against Mediterranean is rather formidable in the contemplation. A further thought, however, will convince that the turbulent and comparatively poor nations of the south can be imagining nothing so wild as conflict to secure their racial dignity. It is much more likely that the progress of Pan Latinism will find the Latins trying to emulate the more successful features of northern society, its industry, its educational...
There is another aspect of this work however, which claims the attention of the American undergraduate. Much of the energy of the Student Friendship Fund, with that of the Confederation Internationale des Etudiants, has been directed toward the encouragement of internationalism in learning. The exchange of students between countries will affect not only their political relations, but to a great extent their intellectual development. The world of learning has moved far from the medieval ideal; already our universities have become more national in character and appeal. That this situation has been radically changed since the war, and that...
...this article concerned itself with American universities it would be fairly complete at this point, for it has already dealt with all important phases of academic life as this is known in America. But in Germany those phases are almost overshadowed by another aspect of the situation--the political and psychological. No one can approach an understanding of the situation in Germany unless he realizes at the very outset that politics--politics of an intransigent and bitter variety of which the average American has no conception--intrudes itself dominatingly into every department of life, including even the exact sciences...