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...Schiller of Oxford University leader of the British school of Pragmatists, will deliver an address this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Emerson J. His topic is, "William James and the Making of Pragmatism." Dr. Schiller and Professor James were close friends for many years. The lecture will be given under the auspices of the Harvard Philosophical Club. J. W. Miller 3G, President of the club, announces that the meeting is open to the public...
Pragmatism has been generally considered as chiefly an American contribution to practical philosophy. Dr. Schiller himself studied for some years at Cornell University. He was also an instructor there from 1893 to 1897. Returning afterward to Oxford, he became tutor and fellow of Corpus Christi College...
Although Gozzi's comedies received the praise of Goethe, Schiller and other writers of the time, little attention was paid to them until recently. This summer-however, one of his satires "Re Turandote" adopted into German, was performed at Salzburg, Austria, under the direction of Max Reinhardt, and last month Puccini's posthumous opera based on the same story was sung at the Metropolitan...
...useful Institution. If one is in possession of the right statistics he can prove almost anything. Some of the latest significant figures have been brought to light in Prussia where it is shown that out of more than a thousand schools 136 are named for the Hohenzolierns, 12 for Schiller, 10 for Goethe Hindenburg and Bismarck and only two for Martin Luther. This is indeed an important revelation and one which should do much to throw light on world affairs. It clearly demonstrates in the first place that a Hohenzollerns revival is immanent or that there were a good number...
...study of the classics was crippled if not killed by classroom pedants who forgot the meaning of the classic literature in their absorption in the minutiae of the classic languages. Did William James have this in mind when he said to F. C. S. Schiller that "the natural one my of any subject is the professor there-of"? At any rate, specialization in the classics has about succeeded in sealing the tomb of one of the richest sources, if not indeed the richest source, of intellectual and aesthetic stimulation and discipline. May not a too extreme specialization in the teaching...