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...Zimmermann studied under Professor Goldschmidt in Halle-Wittenberg University, Germany, and by reason of his connection with the Germanic Museum in Nuremberg, which contains the originals of many works of art duplicated at the University, was keenly interested in the Germanic Museum. The New Fogg Museum was described by Dr. Zimmermann as the finest new museum building he has seen. Dr. Zimmermann pointed out that the Nuremberg Goose-Man, a cast of which stands in the foremost of the Germanic Museum here, is not available for any museum, as it is kept in a public square of Nuremberg...
...play, Hamlet's greeting to his college mate Horatio was: "But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg?" At that German university Martin Luther taught philosophy in 1508. Hamlet, before his father's murder had muddled his feelings and emotions, had spent happy undergraduate semesters there. He longed to return. But his uncle-stepfather* urged: "For your intent in going back to school in Wittenberg, it is most retrograde to our desire; and we beseech you, bend you to remain here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye, our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son." His mother...
...Oldtime Wittenberg no longer exists. It was merged in 1815 with the University of Halle. The school buildings, great stone piles, are used now as barracks for German infantry troops...
...there exists another Wittenberg, a Lutheran college founded in 1845 on a rolling hill at the northern side of Springfield, Ohio. To this Wittenberg last week went almost 400 psychologists to unravel with modern skill sleeves of care. The papers that they read and the papers sent by scores of foreign scientists to be read by proxy constituted the first U. S. Symposium of Feelings & Emotions...
...Harvard Professors will read papers at a "Symposium" on Feelings and Emotions" which will be held at Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, this week in connection with the dedication of the Chemistry Psychology building of the college...