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...been unable to follow this unique example set by the University of Michitgan, for the most prominent authorities on educational matters in this country are of opinion that it is only a national preparatory school system, intimately connected with the prominent universities, such as is exemplified in the German gymnasia, that will bring American univeristies to that unequalled state of excellence to which German universities have attained...
...convenience, and, located as it is in the very heart of the city, the facilities offered the student in various directions are very great. It is equipped with the most modern appliances, and contains numerous rooms for recitation, lectures and study, a chapel, a large hall, and two gymnasia. The new students this fall numbered about fifty...
...same conviction." The main point is very emphatically touched upon by the university faculty in their report of 1869. "In regard to the natural sciences, the most mutable of our chemists and physicists, as well as the representatives of the other departments, agree that the students from the Gymnasia on the average accomplish more. It is the general experience that the foretastes of these sciences obtained in the Realschule frequently dulls rather than stimulates eagerness for knowledge. Still less are the modern languages able to take the place of Greek and Latin; for, since as a rule the only thing...
...doing primary instruction is better secured. The higher education gave the tone and determined the character of the lower. The elementary schools in Germany were the best in the world, for the reason that they were the open doors to the real and burgher schools and the gymnasia. Primary schools in England have been a by-word because the chasm between the great endowed schools, colleges, and universities and the places for the instruction of the poor was as wide as that between Lazarus and Dives. Huxley had said that no system of public education was worthy the name unless...
...there were only nine seminaries for teachers, and although in 1876 the number had increased to sixty there is still a great demand. The course of the universities is four years and they are modeled after the German universities. In 1811 Greek was introduced as an elective. The gymnasia carry the scholars about as far as the sophomore class of our better American colleges. The course in Greek and Latin during the last year is, Cicero's Tusculanian Disputations, Odes and Satires of Horace, selections from Demosthenes and Thucydides, at least two tragedies of Sophocles, and Plato's Apology...