Word: privatdocenten
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...private docenten to the total number of the university teaching force during the last fifty years has been about 25 per cent., and the last five years show an increase even over that number. Professor Francke gives comparative tables showing the percentage of work done by regular professors and privatdocenten in "general" and "special" courses compared with that of "full professors" and "instructors" at Harvard and Cornell in elementary and advanced courses. He shows that the tendency is in Germany "to let the older men do the bulk of fundamental instruction-to entrust the special investigation and research mainly...
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