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...colonized is based upon that of France in which the lycee is the very heart of the system. And the educational system of Teutonic and Slavic Europe is based upon that of Germany in which the Gymnasium is the very heart of the system. When, therefore, I make some comparison between our system of higher education and those of France and Germany, I am really making a comparison between our system and that of the civilized world. The lycee and the gymnasium complete the general education of the French and German young man and woman preparatory to taking up graduate...
...this be accomplished? That brings me to my second point. You remember that I promised to draw two lessons from a comparison of European and American education one, which I have just briefly discussed referring to the spirit of education. The other, that I shall even more briefly discuss, having to do with the organization of education. I told you that the last two years of the lycee and gymnasium were equivalent to the first two years of our college. In the European systems these two years are added to those which go before to form an institution...
...circuit of about 100 miles in six days. The next day, we started at 5 o'clock. Deducting the time taken or towing a disabled car from the mountain road, and for breakfast, we made the 217 miles in seven and one-half hours. This time prompts a comparison between Professor Whitney and his sides in the sixties and the present. We travelled five of the eight days on horseback over good trails, one day afoot, and 434 miles by auto in two short days...
...mental and economic, for the last decade, the nation may now turn to the business of convalescing from its shame. To be an American does not always mean to be a boorish wretch,, unconscious of the higher things in life. Without degenerating into flagwaving one may easily endure a comparison of the United States with its most caustic critics...
...become the fashion for critics of higher education in the U. S. to point with pride to Oxford, whether they have ever been there or not, as the archetype of all that is liberal and humanistic in a university. Nor is the comparison without color on many academic counts. On the social side, however, much is left unsaid. On Oxford's rule-books stand many quaint restrictions hanging over from the crabbed past-curfew hours, the wearing of gowns (however abbreviated and however disreputably tattered), places to be seen in and not to be seen in, absence from town...