Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Permit me to call the attention of Harvard men to the fact that the interchange of professors between Harvard and German universities, which was so auspiciously inaugurated last year by Professor Ostwald's activity here and Professor Peabody's at Berlin, bids fair this year to lead to equally fortunate results. Professor Richards will go to Berlin in the second term. Professor Kuhnemann of Breslau University is with...
...dilate here on Professor Kuhnemann's inspiring personality and oratorical power; but I cannot refrain from saying that not for a long number of years have Harvard students had such an opportunity, as is offered now by his courses, to be led into the spirit of German literature. Especially his course on the modern German drama cannot help being of the greatest possible value to all those who wish to understand the important intellectual movements which now are stirring Europe. KUNO FRANCKE
Friedrich Althoff, "Absent through illness, but expressly represented today by Professor Struve, director of the Prussian universities; modest, austere, untiring, sagacious, resolute, the most potent personage in German higher education; the promoter of the exchange of professors between German and American universities...
...second important change is in regard to admission requirements to the College. In the first place, the substitution of the entrance papers given by the College Entrance Examination Board for the regular Harvard College entrance examinations has been extended to include all the following subjects: Elementary Greek, Latin, French, German, Greek and Roman History, Algebra, Plane and Solid Geometry, Physics and Chemistry, and Advanced Greek, Latin, German, French, History, Algebra, Logarithms and Trigonometry, and Solid Geometry. By this change, the work of those schools which send men to Harvard is simplified, and new avenues of approach to the University have...