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...German newspapers announce that Mr. M. L. Perrin, M. A., a graduate of Harvard College, has been engaged by the University of Gottingen as assistant professor in the English department of its seminary for modern languages...
...truth that the philosophic student wants. He does not want the philosophy that may best suite the nature of his country. Dr. McCosh cites the rule of Kaut in Germany, Des Cartes in France, Reid in Scotland, etc., as examples of this nationalistic tendency of philosophy. A German philosophy thus should be one that shows the deep thought and idealism of the country; an English philosophy should be matter of fact; a French philosophy light and fantastic, and so through the whole category. The absurdity of any such doctrine then becomes evident. The philosophy that all should seek...
...come here wishing to learn to read French and German, and caring little about writing these languages. For such students courses I and II, with but slight attention to composition, are provided in German. The only corresponding French course is VIII, where large amounts are read. Yet there is a half course, and can be taken only as an extra. French I, as now carried on, has far more composition than the average student cares for. So the time spent in trying to get a working knowledge of French does not, as in other languages, count for a degree...
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Probably few of the students at Harvard are aware of the fact that not far from here is an establishment which might, did the faculty so will it, make an entire change in our life and comforts. About four months ago a German inventor, Frederick Schaefer, opened a factory in Cambridgeport for the purpose of building electrical dynamos, lamps, and all the other necessities for electric lighting, after models which he had himself invented. Many improvements over the old dynamos and lamps have been made, especially in the lamps, the filaments of which are made of a silk thread, instead...