Word: german
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...more courses will be given in each of the following subjects: Anthropology, Architecture, Astronomy, Botany, Chemistry, Design in Art, Drawing and Painting, Education, English Composition, English Literature, Ethics, Fine Arts, French, Geography, Geology, German, Government, Greek, Greek Life, History, Latin, Mathematics, Metaphysics, Methods of Teaching, Music, Philosophy, Physical Education, Physics, Psychology, Public Speaking and Reading, Shopwork, Spanish, and Surveying...
...differing attainments and experience there must of necessity be some variations in intrinsic value; but with one or two possible exceptions a high standard alike of matter and literary quality has been maintained throughout. The average of excellence is indeed quite on a parity with that afforded by recent German, French, and English enterprises of similar scope and method, while many of the volumes will no doubt take permanent place as notable contributions to the general equipment of the teacher of American history. To this outcome the judgment, enthusiasm, and persistent industry of the general editor have been...
...true identity of the pseudo-governor is discovered, and he goes back to his old occupation of porter; and finds his affinity in a German maid of Priscilla's. The Americans are seized, as implicated in the hoax, and they try to return to 1908, but lose the charm. Matters are looking very dark for them, when the scene suddenly changes and they wake up to find themselves back in Boston...
...German student is of a different type from the Harvard type. The men are older and more mature, and are more devoted to their studies; and there is not the superabundant interest in outsider things that there is at Harvard. At Berlin this condition is more apparent then at other universities, for at Bonn, Heidelberg and the other provincial universities there is more esprit de corps. At none of the European universities is there any development of athletics corresponding to ours. Compulsory service in the army supplies in part the need of physical training, but the absence of athletics makes...
...whole, Professor Sheffield said, the exchange system is a great success. There is a lamentable ignorance in Germany regarding modern English literature, an ignorance that is only matched by our lack of knowledge regarding German literature. This ignorance will be broken by a few years of the exchange, and even more by the exchange of students which is to be inaugurated in a few years...