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...idealism would of times be present and gently insinuate that all these new ideas were to be found in Plato. Papers were read by the "big bugs" and discussed by the little ones, until in one winter Mrs. De Sorosis had done more to disseminate the cant terms of German metaphysics than the originators of them would have done in half a century, and today there are more twenty-five-year-old disciples of Carlyle, Hegel and Emerson, more short-haired women and long-haired men, more specimens of "Lange Haare und kurze Gedanke," as a German contemporary puts...
There will be several much-needed changes in the German department next year...
...decision of the German customs, admitting American corned beef as "fine iron ware," is sustained by that government...
...discussed by them, is significant. The examination system has indeed been long established ; it has the prestige of the authority of European educators to support it. But in spite of this, it is fast proving itself unsuitable for American methods of instruction. The writer of the article on German student life in the last number of the Crimson, we fear, delivers a true commentary on American students, when he says that there is observable, in both American and German students, one common quality-"a remarkable tendency to shirk work," or at least, to postpone work until the final examination...
...criticised the distribution of the work into several hands, and next the consequent diversity of style. Unfortunately for the reviewer the book was made up of old translations in new clothes, and the good men who labored on it were beyond the reach of the Saturday Review. That the German indexer should catalogue the book as - "Plutarch's Morals," edited by W. W. Goodwin, translated by S. Hands, (several hands) - was pardonable, but for the Englishman to run his neck into such a noose of folly reflects upon himself gravely. The other offence is new and still rankles. Apropos...