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gogics in tiie University of Mii'liiyaii, also (lcst;rihos this same iiitlu- 

 eiR-e in the ehaptei' Notes on the History of foreign InMueiu-e upon 

 Kdueation in the United States of the al)ove-eited education report 

 {I, p. 603-029). Among other things he there gives a list of the 

 Americans who studied in (iottingen from 1789 to 1851, in Halle from 

 1826 to 1849, in Berlin from 1825 to 1850, and in Leipsic from 1827 

 to 184:0. Supplementary to this, Pi'ofessor Perry, who has already 

 been quoted, remarks" that after 18-48 a noticeabl(> numl)er of Ameri- 

 cans, including many of the most eminent scholars the country ha.s 

 produced, obtained degrees in Germany, and that after 1870, hundreds 

 visited Germany amuially, which, together with the opening of the 

 Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in flanuary. 1876, on an avow- 

 edly German plan, gave a mighty impulse. 



In the same periodical (p. 6) II. A. Todd, professor of romantic phi- 

 lology in Columbia University, states that prior to the last twenty years 

 American students abroad attended almost exclusively German univer- 

 sities. To-day, therefore, the American universities are manned pre- 

 eminently by professors who have been in close contact with the leading 

 minds of Germany. Although it is now customary to advise American 

 students to study for a year in Germany, Professor Todd can, "with 

 prophetic eye, foresee the time when it will become of interest to an 

 increasing number of European students to seek part of their training 

 in the United States."' I think time will show that he is right. That 

 so large a percentage of the active professors of the American univer- 

 sities have studied in Germany may perhaps be in part explained by 

 the fact that the men who sought to complete their education in 

 Europe were a very select intellectual band. Onl}- the best fitted and 

 the most ambitious young scientists felt the desire to extend their 

 circle of vision. Their knowledge and their views were essentially 

 widened in Europe, and thus they returned predestined to fill positions 

 as teachers. 



Prof. H. Miinsterberg, of Harvard, has recently expressed the opin- 

 ion * that, although the spirit of American universities has for the past 

 fifty years been determined by men who have studied in Germany and 

 ))rought home with them enthusiasm for German science, these rela- 

 tions are now changing. The number of students, he iia.ys, who after 

 a couple of years of study return from Cfermany deeply disappointed, 

 is increasing in a striking manner, and everN^where the advice is heard 

 to finish one's ordinary studies in America and to seek further inspi- 

 ration in Germany only after having obtained a degree. Such a change 

 would show that the former conditions of dependence no longer exist 

 to their former extent, and that the time when Professor Todd's 

 prophecy will come true is already approaching. 



" Coiamhia University Quarlcrh/, II, 1899, p. 3. ''ZuJcmifl, 1900, No. 85, p. M92. 



