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...GERMAN LANGUAGE. -Mr. Bernhard Schroeder, who has taught his native tongue in this city for three years with the greatest success, will come a few nights in the week to Cambridge, to prepare Harvard students for the next examination. Will also take a limited number of pupils either in class, or individually, Address, 6 Park square, Boston...
...Yale, given by Mr. A. T. Hadley. Its purpose is to cover the history of railroads and the business methods of the same, together with the social problems arising in connection with them. The course also treats of the railway systems of Europe including a careful survey of the German railway union, which embraces most of the German roads and some in Austria and Holland. Among the business and social questions are rates, competition, railroad legislation, strikes, granger movements and railroad commissions. The course is conducted mainly by lectures; but there are free discussions on all knotty problems or difficult...
Harvard men who are intending to go abroad next summer, will do well, before they make up their minds irrevocably to the step, to pause and read the following statement upon the evils of foreign travel, taken from an article in one of the German magazines. It is written, of course, from a German standpoint. "The passion for foreign travel," says the writer, "constantly stimulated as it is by improved means of communication, involves the grestest danger to the nation-moral as well as political. No less than $40,000,000 to $60,000,000 are annually thus lost...
...while we are upon this subject, is it not rather strange that this custom is not more general among us? In all the German and French universities this usage has received the sanction of long observance. In many of our own instructions of learning it has become a matter of daily occurrence, notably at the medical schools of New York. Such manifestations of respect can hardly be otherwise than gratifying to the instructor who is honored by them...
...Sophomore German lessons, like last year's Harvard eleven, are characterized by a lack of snap...