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...German 2 Mass...
...college president says that every student should thoroughly understand three languages - English, German and French; and an alarmist wants to know what will become of the three b's - boating, boxing and base-ball - if English is taken...
...work of the Unitarian ministry, and during the thirty years ensuing gave to it, in various cities of New England, the best vigor of his life. . . . In 1857 he was made Professor of Ecclesiastical History in Harvard University, and held this chair until his transfer to that of German Literature in 1872. This was the most active part of his literary life, during which he wrote many books besides a number of remarkable magazine articles. The best known of his works are his "Prose Writers of Germany," his "Primaeval World of Hebrew. Tradition," and his "Reason in Religion...
...education afforded by Oxford and Cambridge to be compared with that of any of the great German universities...
...illiberal and expensive. The English university is not national property in the true sense. Being under the control of the church of England it is necessarily sectarian in its character, and does not by any means heed public sentiment at all times. On the other hand the German university is liberal to the greatest extent, meets the intellectual wants of the people and is less expensive...