Word: helmholtz
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...good for young priests. They lived, as they still live, in college, under the superintendence of a number of older graduate members (fellows) of the college; in other respects in the style and habits of the well-to-do classes in England.-[From the German of Prof. Helmholtz...
...misuse of tobacco and of intoxicating drinks. It must also be admitted that the English universities accustom their students to energetic and accurate work, and keep them up to the habits of educated society. The moral effect of the more rigorous control is said to be rather illusory.-[Prof. Helmholtz...
Prof. Hagen of Harvard College, with his nephew, the assistant of Prof. Helmholtz, in the Physical Laboratory of Berlin University spent Tuesday visiting the different departments of the college.-[Wellesley Courant...
...recent article on the Universities of Germany, France and England, Prof. Helmholtz makes the following remarks on the French and German University systems...
...instructors? In our opinion, a negative answer can be safely given to this query which brings up a distinctive feature of American and English universities as compared with German institutions. In Germany students are attracted by the peculiar brilliancy of some one instructor or department; men go to hear Helmholtz, or Virchow or some equally celebrated professor - not to attend the particular university. In England and America, a student selects the university in which he expects to find the best general efficiency, in which he sees the best scholarship in all the departments, not the one in which some...