Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Francke of the German department has a long letter in the last number of the New York, Nation on a "Difference in German and American University Methods." Prof. Francke calls attention to the German Private docent wesen, an institution which is perhaps the most destructive of German scholarship. The private docent is a young man who has just won his doctorate, who has convinced the faculty of a German university that he is an independent searcher after truth. He is at once admitted to the same kind of teaching as the oldest members of the faculty, but assumes only...
...Abroad," by E. L. Godkin is, as its title indicates, a comparison of our own with foreign methods, ours being chiefly newsgathering, true and false, whereas foreigners devote themselves more to editorial writing. Mr. Godkin's paper has no expression of contempt for our contemporaneous journalism, that the Nation so often and justly indulges in. "The Doctrine of States' Rights" is advocated by Jeff. Davis. Erastus Wiman writes on "British Capital in the United States." Rev. Julius H. Ward discusses the "American Bishops of Today" and Ouida writes on Shelley in a trenchant style, which she adopts as an essayist...
...last Nation calls attention to the fact that De Gubernatis's "Dictionary of Writers," published in Florence, speaks of Charles W. Eliot as president of "Harvard...
...article in the last Nation on "Ibsen and his Translators," Mr. G. R. Carpenter's translation of "The Lady from the Sea," which appeared in the November and December numbers of the Monthly, is noticed...
...first editorial dwells upon the fact that Yale as a national university leads Harvard. The result is that Harvard is losing her interest in the national life and is forfeiting to some extent the highest privilege of a university, namely, the power of educating the people. The third editorial asks whether "our university should not be a complementary rather than a formative institution." The answer is that both departments, undergraduate as as well as post-graduate, are worthy of cultivation, but that it is through the undergraduate department that the nation is most directly reached. The remedy for this condition...