Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Kuehnemann has had the happy idea of writing two articles for a German review on President Eliot's administration at Harvard. These articles have been translated in advance and are now published in the form of a book...
...College in 1869, says Professor Kuehnemann (who evidently has only the formal instruction in view), was like a German gymnasium, surrounded by a group of professional schools with low standards of admission and "merely practical aims." The work of President Eliot, he continues, has consisted in turning these schools into places for graduate and theoretical study; in leading the College from "the easy-going pursuit of prescribed courses" and "the drill system" to "a thoroughly scholarly training, befitting the dignity and importance of the learned professions"; and finally, in inducing the preparatory schools to raise their standards, diversify their teaching...
...should foster individuality, it should produce experts and respect for experts, it should secure co-operation, and it should stimulate public spirit. These quotations from President Eliot, expressing his profound faith in a democratic society trained and enlightened as he would have it, are, I think, what will strike German readers most in the articles. They are also what will most interest the American public. A short account of the official arrangements at Harvard naturally contains much that is commonplace to us here, while on the other hand it passes over many things which belong to the true inwardness...
...annual dinner of the Harvard Cosmopolitan Club will be held this evening in the Assembly Room of the Union at 7 o'clock. President Eliot, Baron Takahira, the Japanese ambassador, and Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, will be the guests of honor. The dinner is distinctly a dinner for the club, and no undergraduates except the members have been invited...
Application blanks for tickets to Miss Maude Adams' performance of Schiller's "Maid of Orleans," which will be given in the Stadium under the auspices of the German department on June 22, have been sent out. Persons receiving these may obtain reserved seats at $2 and $3 each in advance of the public sale, which will begin on June...