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university to university in a manner 

 rather difficult to reconcile with the 

 general conception of the ' dark ages.' 

 This movement had an important effect 

 on the development of European civil- 

 ization. It has never since been 

 equaled, though there have been sig- 

 nificant migrations of students, the 

 most interesting of which from our 

 point of view being the large number 

 of Americans who studied in Germany 

 during the latter half of the nineteenth 

 centurJ^ This movement reached its 

 culmination about 1890, when some five 

 hundred Americans were pursuing non- 

 professional graduate studies in Ger- 



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man universities. But the students who 

 went earlier to Germany had a greater 

 effect on our educational system, as 

 witnessed in the development of Har- 

 vard College and the establishment of 

 the Johns Hopkins University. The 

 movement has now become widespread, 

 and we have some thirty universities 

 and 5,000 students carrying on grad- 

 uate work on the model of the German 

 university. There are now a few Euro- 

 pean students attracted to our universi- 

 ties and at least one professor in an 

 American institution has been offered 

 a chair in Germany. Numerous stu- 

 dents have come from Japan and a con- 



