Word: german
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...german of the Society men in the Scientific School was "a very brilliant affair...
...many glaring inconsistencies. We all likewise hope that in some future golden age these present defects will be remedied. The first step toward correcting a fault is to call attention to it, and I wish therefore to speak of the facilities afforded us for learning the French and German languages respectively. In regard to the comparative worth of the two languages, no one will deny that to students (as some of us are really supposed by the outside barbarians to be) a knowledge of German has the more practical value. Most of the men who enter the Freshman class know...
...difference is marked. The French student has an evening reading, at present given in French, once a week; three hours a week are devoted to reading French at sight; and once a week an interesting lecture is delivered in French before those who care to attend. The student of German has, on the contrary -nothing...
...moral is obvious. Let there be some opportunity given to those who wish to meet an instructor for the purposes of reading at sight; let some instructor deliver a course of lectures in German, in language suited to our modest acquirements; in short, let the same opportunities be given to the man who wishes to study German as to the one who wishes to study French; and it will soon be seen that enough men will make use of the privilege to warrant its being granted...
...appointed two fresh Seniors (from another college) to the important, passably lucrative, and quite honorable position of proctor, to the exclusion of men of abler scholarship and presumably closer interest with the University, who graduated in '75, '76, and '77. Such action as we complain of is frequent in German universities of equal standing with Harvard, but we hope that hereafter the committee will give the preference to Harvard graduates, to whom, other things being equal, it of right belongs...