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...were just what the uninitiated would expect of them. They were tributes given by the universities to men who had made a significant contribution to the world of learning or who had performed some especially laudable deed in the service of humanity. As learning became more commercialized during the nineteenth century and competition between the universities keener, the requirements for an honorary degree became ever more lenient, until the present spectacle of politicians, rich suckers, and back writers receiving honors from the colleges should disgust any one with the slightest pride in higher education...
When Japan was emerging from Feudalism during the second half of the nineteenth century, he said, a certain Ito and other official observers were sent to examine the Constitutions of the modern civilized nations. They were especially impressed by Bismarck and the Prussian form of government, and also adopted some ideas from England, but after being given some copies of "The Federalist" and the American constitution they politely called it the worst. Their present document contains 76 articles, 64 of which are taken from foreign models, 42 from Germany...
...literary historian, Professor Vietor's published work deals chiefly with the eighteenth and nineteenth century. His books include a study of Holderlin's lyrics (1921), a "History of the German Ode" (1923), and an important monograph on "The Young Goethe...
From the levelling and standardization of industrialism in the mid-nineteenth century, Brahms stood out as the most heroic of composers. In spite of the machine civilization, for years he wrote and conducted great symphonies. When in 1896 he came to Berlin he little suspected it was the last time he would grasp a baton. His friend Joachim, the famous protege of Mendelssohn, gave a dinner for him before the performance. By now he showed many marks of age; his much-admired "St. John's head" and his full white beard combined to make him quite leonine. Children, whom...
Robert H. Shaw '37, fourteenth, 48.1; Strafford Wentworth '36, fifteenth, 48.4; Thomas B. Walsh '25, seventeenth, 50.0; David H. Lawrence '40, nineteenth, 50.6; R. Colin MacLaurin '38, twenty-first, 53.0; Andrew Marshall, Jr. '34, twenty-third, 53.4; Samuel Wakeman, twenty-fourth, 53.6; Wendell M. Hastings '35, twenty-fifth, 54.0; Hubert D. Kernan, Jr., twenty-seventh...