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not by the help of, our plan of cram almost from birth 

 to maturity, that the innate creative power of the 

 Anglo-Saxon blood comes out. How much more 

 might the race yield if originality were encouraged 

 instead of being repressed and often destroyed by 

 examination grinding, and if the freedom to teach and 

 to study were in vogue with us as in Germany ! 



The oft-debated question of the tutorial versus the 

 professorial system of training is one upon which I do 

 not propose here to enter, save to call to mind that if 

 the Universities throughout the world were asked to 

 vote as to which system is to be preferred, only few 

 hands would be held up for the former method against 

 many for the latter. But, whichever system may be 

 the favourite, one cannot help feeling that the hybrid 

 method as practised at Oxford and Cambridge is an 

 illogical one. Let us have one plan or the other. 

 A friend of mine who took honours in the History 

 Schools at Oxford told me that he never knew 

 throughout his University career that Stubbs (one of 

 England's great historians) lectured on history ! 

 Imagine, if you can, a German student of that subject 

 not knowing that Hauser in Heidelberg or Treitschke 

 in Berlin lectured on history. 



Another equally intelligent friend supported the 

 existence of University professorships by the argu- 

 ment that they were useful sinecures for distinguished 

 persons ! 



In Heidelberg in the early 'fifties social festivities 

 were on an old-world footing ; now railways and 

 telegraphs have modernised not only the town itself, 

 but the manners and customs of the inhabitants. On 

 one occasion we were invited to spend the evening 

 with the Geheimrat, who was the Professor of Rural 

 Economy, and what might be called a " stock " 



