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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Bliss Perry delivered an address on "Memorable Teachers" before the Graduate Schools Society in Phillips Brooks House last evening. He described the types of teachers in the old New England schools, and the famous professors with whom he came in contact in his studies in Heidelberg, Berlin, and Strassburg, and lastly those French scholars who represent the modern advancement in methods, in style and in effectiveness of teaching...
...Berlin University at this time were Curtius, Helmholz, Mommsen, Grimm, and Zupitza. Curtius was the famous Greek archaeologist, who had made valuable discoveries of classic temples and statues. The speaker described the work of Helmholz, the famous theorist in vibration of sound and light, and came in personal contact with the two greatest lecturers of that day, Mommsen and Grimm. Zupitza, the Anglo-Saxon and Gothic scholar, was one of his earliest teachers. In Strassburg and Heidelberg he came under the direct influence of such men as Ten Brink and Kuno Fischer...
...Gulick's lecture is based upon twenty-six years of observation in Japan, and the closest contact with the Japanese leaders. The first part of his talk was a discussion of the relative relations between America, Japan, and China respectively. Japan and America are gradually drifting apart over the California land trouble. To prevent this, and to maintain to present friendly relations with China, the United States must give each of these countries a square deal...
...organization will hold also a series of meetings, open to all members of the College, to increase interest in the economic, political, and sociological problems of the day. At each of these meetings some member of the Faculty, whose work has brought him into contact with the subject for discussion, will give a review of the current events touching on it. There will follow a general informal discussion, during which the reviewer of the evening will answer any questions related to the subject. This plan has met with the approval of the Faculty, which will give it their co-operation...
...visiting courses in which they are not enrolled. The chance to hear valuable lectures by men of eminence in their particular fields is one of the greatest opportunities of college. Although the subject of a course may not appeal to a man, he will derive substantial benefit from contact with the professor; and he is here given free access to the lectures of many of the best known professors in the country. He may put his time and work on the subject in which he is interested, and by the visiting privilege he may also acquaint himself with the leaders...