Word: docent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...course of lectures on the Income Tax to be given by Dr. J. A. Hill '85, the preliminary meeting of which will be held this afternoon, marks the introduction into the University of the privat docent system of instruction which is in vogue at the great German universities. These lectures are given in accordance with the Faculty vote of last January which reads as follows...
NOTES:- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born in 1770, studied at the University of Tubingen from 1788 until 1793, became Docent at Jena in 1801, published his "Phenomenology of Spirit" in 1807, was later Gymnasium Director, between 1808 and 1816, was then professor at Heidelberg, and afterwards at Berlin, and died in 1831. His "Logic" was published in the years 1812-1816. His works were collected and printed, after his death, in eighteen volumes. In English the best account of his life is that of Edward Caird, in Blackwood's "Philosophical Classics." Of Dr. Hutchinson Sterling's famous and historically...
Professor Francke of the German department has a long letter in the last number of the New York, Nation on a "Difference in German and American University Methods." Prof. Francke calls attention to the German Private docent wesen, an institution which is perhaps the most destructive of German scholarship. The private docent is a young man who has just won his doctorate, who has convinced the faculty of a German university that he is an independent searcher after truth. He is at once admitted to the same kind of teaching as the oldest members of the faculty, but assumes only...