"Harvard is now open. What will it teach? For fifty years our American professors and students have been in ardent pursuit of German ideals of scholarship; they have tortured themselves to attain German thoroughness, Gruendlichkeit; they have taken all the arts and sciences and done them over in the likeness of a German image. We have profited by this, for it has checked our native love for the hasty and impermanent ways of the pioneer.
"Says a professor of Johns Hopkins, a university peculiarly devoted to the best that is in German education:
"We have learned much from German scholars about historical 'objectivity' and the niceties of historical criticism; what we receive, when we look for an application of these principles to contemporary events, is a clumsy complication of fictions, irrelevancies, and vulgar appeals to what are apparently conceived to be American prejudices.'" (Boston Evening Transcript).
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