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Within the last week Columbia has lost two of its most prominent professors by death-the one, Professor John C. Dalton, under whom the College of Physicians and Surgeons has reached the period of its greatest usefulness; the other Dr. Herman Schmidt, for thirty-three years professor of German language and literature...
...cannot derive some benefit from it. The same can be said of nations. Take for instance the Greeks: after a long struggle against barbarism and clouded thought, they contributed to civilization the intellectual standard. The Romans handed down the forms of the will, the forms of legality. With the German the tendency towards intellectual theory is natural. He thinks before he acts; does not get his knowledge from experience-as is the case with the English-but from a careful and deep insight into himself. Then, when it is time to reap the fruit of this study of his mind...
Individuality plays an important role in modern German thought. In every branch of learning, the individual is emphasized and respected. In the drama the lesser characters are no longer machines; they are free-acting and free-thinking individuals. The result of this exhaustive specialization of intellect of the Germans will be that it will compel all other nations sooner or later to adopt...
Deutscher Verein. "Modern German Thought and its significance to English-speaking People." Lecture. Professor W. T. Harris, of Concord. Sever 11, 7.30 p. m. Open to the public...
Professor W. T. Harris will lecture tonight under the auspices of the Deutsche Verein. The subject of the lecture will be "Modern German Thought and its Significance to English-speaking People." The lecture will be given in Sever 11 at 7.30, and will be open to the public...