German Universities: A Narrative of Personal Experience, Together with Recent Statistical Information, Practical Suggestions, and a Comparison of the German, English and Ameican Systems of Higher Education

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G.P. Putnam's sons, 1874 - 398 pagina's
 

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Pagina 131 - Qui vindicabat festucam tenebat. Deinde ipsam rem adprehendebat, velut hominem (ie, a slave), et ita dicebat : Hunc ego hominem ex jure Quiritium meum esse aio secundum suam causam sicut dixi. ecce tibi vindictam imposui, et simul homini festucam imponebat.
Pagina 62 - It has always been a matter of surprise to me that the Pandectenpapier has not been introduced into our American colleges.
Pagina 34 - An immense development of grammatical studies, and an immense use of Latin and Greek composition, take so much of the pupil's time, that in nine cases out of ten he has not any sense at all of Greek and Latin literature as literature, and ends his studies without getting any.
Pagina 246 - By Wissenschaft the Germans mean knowledge in the most exalted sense of that term, namely, the ardent, methodical, independent search after truth in any and all of its forms, but wholly irrespective of utilitarian application.
Pagina 264 - His relation to his hearers is that of one gentleman speaking to another. He is not in perpetual dread of hearing himself nicknamed, of seeing his features caricatured; his domestic repose is not disturbed by midnight serenades.
Pagina 35 - Time is кот money. The university is a law unto itself, each professor is a law unto himself, each student revolves on his own axis and at his own rate of speed.

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