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Students in German III are expected to read through Act IV before the recitation on Monday, those in German I, through the first paragraph on page...
...social gathering took its rise from a custom of wearing chaplets of roses at conuivial entertainments, where, as there were many things said which would not bear repetition, everything was considered to be forgotten with the close of the entertainment. A half century ago, in some of the German universities, it was looked upon as a mortal offense to refuse to drink drink when asked, no matter how often the invitation came. Refusal was promptly followed by a challenge to fight a duel. The story is told of one pugnacious student, who, being something of a duelist, and being well...
This miserable system, or rather this miserable lack of system, prevails in all the German universities in a greater or less degree, according to the size of the libraries. And yet the German student lives and learns and becomes the famous philologist, or the famous scientist, whose works are kept in our American libraries at the disposal of everybody. He knows and cares for nothing better, and it were cruel indeed to tell him how much more favored we Americans are. "Where ignorance is bliss...
Professor William A. Cook, late professor of German at Harvard, is now connected with the Institute of Technology...
...requirements for admission are about equal to those at Harvard, with a little more stress laid on French and German. A student may substitute them for Greek. For the college course, which is generally three years, the student has to choose, with some alternatives, from seven courses of study. If, for instance, he wishes to pursue a classical course, course I would be his choice. This includes Latin and Greek with the alternative of Mathematics or History. In Latin, besides composition there are nine authors to be read, among them Livy, Horace, Tacitus, Cicero and Juvenal. In Greek there...