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Professor Rudolph Eucken will deliver the final lecture in the series on "Leading Ideas of the Present Time" in Emerson D, this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The subject of this lecture will be "The Value of Human Life." The lecture will be open to the public...
Professor Rudolf Eucken, exchange professor from the University of Jena, will deliver the fourth of series of lectures under the a spices of the Lowell Institute on "The Fundamental Problems of Human Life" in Huntington Hall, 491 Boylston street. Boston, this afternoon at 5 o'clock. The title of this particular lecture is "The Greatness of Kant." It will be free, and open to the public...
...Lowell Institute Lecture on "The Fundamental Problems of Human Life. IV. The Greatness of Kant," by Professor Rudolf Eucken, in Huntington Hall, 491 Boylston street, Boston...
Some who read these words will deem Professor Eucken an old fogy, and German universities far behind the times. Surely American educators have seen a new light. Is it not the fashion to patronize scholars who are chiefly occupied in discovering new facts? Do we not desire above all "efficiency" teachers, even though they can only impart traditional knowledge? Who doubts that the best way to expand the intellects of students is by supervising rigidly their daily work, and by keeping them constantly in dread of quizzes and examinations? It is certainly very odd of Professor Eucken to think that...
...juvenile some of our methods of discipline seem to scholars abroad. Professor Legouis hints, though most courteously, that in intellectual "Olympics" our "literary and scientific teams" might make a poor showing against competitors of the same age who were trained by the mature system of the Sorbonne. And Professor Eucken, though he refrains from open contrasts, emphasizes at the very outset of his article that "the character and importance of German universities depends particularly on the close connection between investigation and instruction: the teachers not only impart traditional knowledge, but they are themselves occupied in discovering new facts and increasing...