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Prof. Hagen of Harvard College, with his nephew, the assistant of Prof. Helmholtz, in the Physical Laboratory of Berlin University spent Tuesday visiting the different departments of the college.-[Wellesley Courant...
...recent article on the Universities of Germany, France and England, Prof. Helmholtz makes the following remarks on the French and German University systems...
...instructors? In our opinion, a negative answer can be safely given to this query which brings up a distinctive feature of American and English universities as compared with German institutions. In Germany students are attracted by the peculiar brilliancy of some one instructor or department; men go to hear Helmholtz, or Virchow or some equally celebrated professor - not to attend the particular university. In England and America, a student selects the university in which he expects to find the best general efficiency, in which he sees the best scholarship in all the departments, not the one in which some...