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...Edmund Privat, of Geneva, Switzerland, one of the most distinguished Esperantists of Europe, will give an address in the Assembly Room of the Union tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. He will describe the use of Esperanto in Europe, and the recent convention in Cambridge, England, where 1400 Esperantists from 25 countries were gathered. At the conclusion of his address he will give actual demonstration of conversation in Esperanto with some American students of the language...
...course of lectures on the Income Tax to be given by Dr. J. A. Hill '85, the preliminary meeting of which will be held this afternoon, marks the introduction into the University of the privat docent system of instruction which is in vogue at the great German universities. These lectures are given in accordance with the Faculty vote of last January which reads as follows...
Anent the recent announcement that students of Harvard University could now become candidates for honors in Political Science, we wish to call attention to the "Privat-Docent" system that has just been established at that energetic institution, Columbia College: "The 'Privat-Docent' system is one established at the German universities, which enables graduates of these institutions, who may have distinguished themselves in any branch, to deliver lectures in that branch at one of the universities. To this system, it is generally admitted, the preeminent rank of German universities, and the high development of German intellectual life is largely...