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Before the war German universities played a very tangible part in the interests of student America. Like their great English rivals they served not only to supplement the work of the American colleges, but also to direct them, wherever possible, along higher paths of teaching. Oxford and Heidelberg were names of comparative importance. The lack of meticulous restraint, the scholarly enthusiasm, and the opportunity for intensive development in these universities was talked of with equal admiration by intellectual America...
...only wrought great changes in the educational facilities of Germany, but it severed the bond of sympathy between the universities of the conflicting nations. Oxford still was able to lend its tutorial system to Harvard. Heidelberg dropped from sight. Nor could the chaos which followed peace in Germany prove any more tempting to foreign interests than the state of actual war. Sofa to say, that America would ever treat with importance the conditions extant in German universities while the mark was tied to a toy balloon...
...world somewhere, "who at the age of about 50 made up his mind to spend the rest of his life in studying at various universities. . . .This person first took the course at Paris and then went on to Vienna, with the intention of going on to Jena and Heidelberg after that, and of eventually bringing up at Oxford or Cambridge. . . . He must be a sort of Wandering Jew of erudition, with the important difference . . . that he goes around the world happily instead of miserably, and may leave it, with all his load of learning clinging to his soul, when...
Scholarship To Heidelberg Senior...
Harold Joyce Noble A.B., Columbus, O., A.B. Ohio Wesleyan University 1924, History: Fritz Jules Roethlisberger 1G., Tomkinsville, N. Y., A.B. Columbia University 1921, B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1922, Candidate for A.M., Philosophy; Edward Perry Rubin, Senior in Heidelberg University, Tiffin, O., Social Ethics: Jacob Bernard Shohan 2G., Boston, A.B. 1916, Chemistry; Dietrich Conrad Smith A.M., St. Paul, Minn., A.B. University of Minnesota 1923, A.M. ibid, 1924, Zoology; Hanns Peter Swarzenski, Frankfort, Germany, Fine Arts; Charles Edwin Teeter Jr. 1G., Newark, N. J., A.B. 1923, Thayer Scholar, Chemistry...