Word: hofmann
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...classical training is one of vital importance to every student, we have thought best heretofore to say very little on the subject beyond what we have clipped from other papers, as we felt sure our readers would probably hear enough of the discussion. The appearance, however, of Prof. Hofmann's address at Berlin, and the two reports of the Philosophical faculty of that university seems to warrant extended comment. As our view of the pamphlet in question seems too long to be inserted in any one edition of the paper, we have decided to extend it through several issues...
...character of the pamphlet is such that it can be taken as nothing else but a quiet reply to the Phi Beta Kappa speech. The pamphlet in question is called "The Question of a Division of the Philosophical Faculty," and is made up of the inaugural address of Prof. Hofmann on the occasion of his assuming the rectorship of the University of Berlin, and of the two opinions of the Philosophical Faculty of that university on the question of admitting to the university graduates of Realschulen on the same footing as graduates of a Gymnasium. It is very fortunate that...
Prof. White, in his preface, explains the contents of the book and gives a history of the events which gave rise to the controversy. Although Prof. Hofmann's address is mainly taken up with a question which touches but lightly upon the topic of most interest to us at present, in conclusion he discusses the principal subject-"that of admitting students to the Universities without the literary training which a German Gymnasium affords, and especially without a knowledge of Greek...