Word: national
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...there is something else for which we are indebted to Professor Clemen. It is for setting before us the worth of art and the artistic spirit in national culture. There is no lesson which the American people need more than this. He has been teaching, too, that great art meets the needs of leading people, their desires, hopes and aspirations. This is a lesson, too, which our whole nation needs...
There will be a meeting of the Dcutscher Verein in the Verein rooms on Friday at 9 o'clock. Professor Julius Goebel will speak on Fichte, the great German philosopher, and this will be followed by a reading from Fichte's last "Oration to the German Nation," by Jacob Loewonberg 1G., of Koenigsberg, Professor Josiah Royce will also speak on this German philosopher...
Looking at matters from an undergraduate point of view we can comment but imperfectly upon the article in the last number of the Nation entitled "The College Grindstone." The article is entirely in line with the recent speech delivered by Owen Wister, in which he deplored the lack of American scholars. Its substance is that American teachers are so over-burdened with academic duties that they cannot give the time and energy necessary to individual research, and that American scholarship is sacrificed to instruction...
...measure this article is sound. The men who offer the strongest inspirations of our academic life are those to whom America must look for the advancement of its scholarship. But we think that both the Nation and Mr. Wister, in urging their point, have neglected the position of the undergraduate. Their ideal is that of progress in unexplored regions of literature, art and science. Ours is the development of "second-string" men, who, while profiting themselves by the words of eminent authorities, will pave the way for a gradual improvement in real scholarship. To our undeveloped minds this ideal seems...
...Langdon who has recently been reelected District Attorney of San Francisco, has become the most powerful reform figure in the politics of the Far West. A public executive of exceptional organizing ability, he has surrounded himself with the best expert talent of the nation and in less than two years has been responsible for redeeming the City of San Francisco from the clutch of graft and corruption. At various times he has held a nomination for public office from every political party in San Francisco-Democratic, Republican, Independence League, Union Labor and Non-Partisan-and in turn he has broken...