Word: institutions
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Object of the Amerika-Institut...
...arrangement has recently been made with the department of the ministry of education at Berlin for the establishment of the "Amerika Institut" to be devoted to the improvement of intellectual relations between Germany and the United States. It is limited to the improvement of mutual relations and interests in research, scholarship, education, professional courtesies, literature, and art. Professor Hugo Muensterberg, who is exchange professor at the University of Berlin for the current academic year, is the inventor and promoter of the enterprise and is serving as the first director of the "Institut." It has been endowed...
Professor Hugo Muensterberg, who is exchange professor at Berlin for the current academic year, is serving as the first director of the recently established "Amerika Institut" in that city, according to information just received by the State Department at Washington from the Berlin embassy. The institute is strictly under German administration. It is founded and supported by American and German contributors, to serve as an exchange of cultural relations between the United States and Germany...
...Fondation Thiers," of which M. Boutroux is president, is an institution devoted exclusively to original research in all branches of learning. M. Boutroux is also a member of the "Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques," a member of the "Institut de France," honorary professor of history of modern philosophy at the University of Paris, Commandeur of the Legion of Honor, associe etranger of the "Academie des Lincei in Rome," and correspondent of the British Academy...
...annual series of lectures under the auspices of the Cercle Francais will be given this year by M. Emile Boutroux, of the institut de France. The course will consist of four public lectures in French, to be given in the New Lecture Hall at 4 o'clock on the afternoon of the following days: March 8--"Pascal": March 10--"Auguste Comte"; March 17--"L'essence de la Religion"; March 22--"Le Mouvement philosophique contemporain en France...