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...16th of December, 1916. He was born in Danzig, West Prussia, June 1, 1863. After leaving the gymnasium in his native city, he studied philosophy in Leipzig under Wundt, among others, taking the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1885, and went on with physiological studies in Heidelberg...
While Harvard and Princeton are battling for victory today, Cambridge and Oxford are fighting Heidelberg. We settle our contest on a grassy field surrounded by enthusiastic, happy people; they are struggling in blood-stained trenches, haggard and worn, awaiting death. Between the halves of the game a collection will be taken up for the Harvard Surgical Unit, whose members are going across the water to alleviate the sufferings of university men engaged in a more serious struggle. If all stop to think what purpose their contributions will serve, the amount of the collection cannot help being worthy of the throng...
...refreshing to reflect that some of the great universities of the world are still left to promote international good-feeling and tolerance. Oxford, Heidelberg and the Sorbonne are giving academic sanction to the cause of their own countries. German scholarship is found to be pedantic; French scholarship to be superficial. Most intellectual lights, like Sir Gilbert Murray and Gabriele d'Annunzio, have found their refuge in acquiescent, even enthusiastic patriotism. Some like Romain Rolland preach tolerance in a foreign country. Bertrand Russell and Maximilian Harden who insist on academic freedom reap only dishonor among their own people...
...Chapel street, telephone 4550; Hotel Garde, Meadow street and Union avenue, opposite the Union Station, telephone 4580; Warren Hall Dining Room, 1044 Chapel street; Metzgers (Heublein's), corner of Church and Court streets; Cafe Mellone, 35 Centre street; Hof Brau Haus, corner of Church and Crown streets; Old Heidelberg, 135 Temple street; Child's, corner of Crown and Church streets; Speh's, 133 Meadow street; Dwight Grill Room; Byers Grill, basement of Byers Hall on corner of College and Grove streets; Royal Lunch, Elm street, opposite the Yale gymnasium; Capital Lunch, 848 Chapel street, and 107 Meadows street; Longleys...
...statues. The speaker described the work of Helmholz, the famous theorist in vibration of sound and light, and came in personal contact with the two greatest lecturers of that day, Mommsen and Grimm. Zupitza, the Anglo-Saxon and Gothic scholar, was one of his earliest teachers. In Strassburg and Heidelberg he came under the direct influence of such men as Ten Brink and Kuno Fischer...