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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...
Clark university is the first institution in this country to establish the title of docent, which is its highest annual appointment. It is primarily intended as an honor to be awarded to those worthy of more prominent and lucrative positions as professors or assistant professors in colleges. It may be bestowed without examination upon a few men who have advanced beyond the requirements of a doctorate and who satisfy the requirements of the university by a thesis a public address, or in any other way, of both their scientific attainments and their teaching abilities, and, if necessary, may be accompanied...
Loeb '86 has been appointed Docent in the chemical department at Clark University...
Anent the recent announcement that students of Harvard University could now become candidates for honors in Political Science, we wish to call attention to the "Privat-Docent" system that has just been established at that energetic institution, Columbia College: "The 'Privat-Docent' system is one established at the German universities, which enables graduates of these institutions, who may have distinguished themselves in any branch, to deliver lectures in that branch at one of the universities. To this system, it is generally admitted, the preeminent rank of German universities, and the high development of German intellectual life is largely...