Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German universities, there are no regular classes, no class spirit, and no college spirit. The professors read technical, scientific lectures and are indifferent as to whether the students attend or not. Faculty meetings are unheard of, the professors being engrossed with their own studies. In neither the Gymnasium nor the universities does one find any form of extra-curricular activities. Parties, social gatherings, clubs, and other forms of group recreation are seldom found to exist in any of the higher institutions of learning. There is an absolute lack of sport enthusiasm and the old patriotism is regarded by the limited...
...Prussian Minister of Education initiated a reform of the system of education which is now in effect in Prussia and most of the other states of Germany. Why was a reform necessary? Because the schools and Gymnasiums had separated themselves from the deepest roots of the historical German mentality and had become the bondsmen of the materialistic, industrialistic, and the technical age of Germany since 1870. They had drifted into a formless, superficial, and souless omniscience. In Germany one hears nowadays that the old school teacher won the war in 1870, and that the Gymnasium instructor lost the last...
...movement, which are vitalism, creationism, and particularism. The new schools choose one phase of the history of mankind and try to penetrate into this phase using it as a means of forming a new all around, harmonious German personality. Under the new system we have four distinct types of Gymnasium corresponding to the four districts which compose modern culture. These four types are: first, the Humanistic Gymnasium in which the students take up the study of Classicism; second, the Europeanistic Gymnasium which takes up the phases of European language, history, and arts; thirdly, the Mathematical or Scientific Gymnasium; and fourthly...
...University matmen will clash with Brown's powerful wrestling team this evening at 8 o'clock in the Hemenway Gymnasium in what promises to be one of the best meets of the season. Brown is bringing a team of undefeated veterans, and the Crimson will be taxed to the utmost in order to gain a victory...
...Freshnman wrestling team will meet the Brown yearlings this evening also at 7 o'clock in the Hemenway Gymnasium. The 1929 lineup...