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...arrangement has recently been made with the department of the ministry of education at Berlin for the establishment of the "Amerika Institut" to be devoted to the improvement of intellectual relations between Germany and the United States. It is limited to the improvement of mutual relations and interests in research, scholarship, education, professional courtesies, literature, and art. Professor Hugo Muensterberg, who is exchange professor at the University of Berlin for the current academic year, is the inventor and promoter of the enterprise and is serving as the first director of the "Institut." It has been endowed...
...American institute, said: "The establishment may be recognized as a new departure in international relations, and is to be devoted to promoting culture between Germany and the United States. Everything political and commercial lies outside of its realm. Its chief emphasis will lie on the interests of scholarship and research, of education and travel and social connections...
...services of the staff will be at the disposal of the American institutions, scholars, and students, and particular emphasis will be laid on the effort to bring American men of science and research into convenient contact with German universities, bureaus, archives, museums, libraries, laboratories and hospitals...
...Such as showing would suggest that personal contact between Faculty and student body is freer and more instructive here than elsewhere. Yet so many are the courses given in abstruse and advanced subjects, where the professor collects a small circle of pupils for research work and the like, that in the large introductory courses this is by no means the case, the ratio there being generally 50 to one and often much higher. Unfortunately these latter are the courses where the need of personal contact is greatest, since the student is a novice in the field, ignorant of phraseology...
...Guenther Jacoby, privatdozent at the University of Greifswald, and Research Fellow in Philosophy at Harvard, will give the fourth of a series of seven lectures on "Schopenhauer" in Emerson F this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The special subject of today's lecture is "The World as Will." It will be open to members of the University and Radcliffe College...