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...LECTURES ON THE CONTEMPORARY GERMAN DRAMA. "Maurice Maeterlinck." II. Professor Kuehnemann. Emerson...
Professor Kuehnemann has had the happy idea of writing two articles for a German review on President Eliot's administration at Harvard. These articles have been translated in advance and are now published in the form of a book...
...College in 1869, says Professor Kuehnemann (who evidently has only the formal instruction in view), was like a German gymnasium, surrounded by a group of professional schools with low standards of admission and "merely practical aims." The work of President Eliot, he continues, has consisted in turning these schools into places for graduate and theoretical study; in leading the College from "the easy-going pursuit of prescribed courses" and "the drill system" to "a thoroughly scholarly training, befitting the dignity and importance of the learned professions"; and finally, in inducing the preparatory schools to raise their standards, diversify their teaching...
...passes over many things which belong to the true inwardness of the situation and which we think essential to the life and value of the place. But it is impressive to be reminded of what have been the national and humane ideals behind President Eliot's work. Professor Kuehnemann has presented these ideals fairly and enthusiastically. The presentation would gain if we could translate the German English back into his real German. Professor Kuehnemann misses in President Eliot "what might remind us of Kant," and he, or his translator, supplies it abundantly. Yet the exotic style marks well enough...
...Germanism and Cosmopolitanism"--Professor Eugen Kuehnemann...