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corresponded to the evident facts of tlie case. 

 Not only is the new arrangement established, 

 it appears, as again the Germans themselves 

 witness, to he Working with success. Sta- 

 tistics show the attendance, winter semester, 

 1911-12, of about one woman for every twenty 

 male students in the universities, taking 

 Germany as a whole. Except that, between 

 hours, you see not a few pairs wandering 

 friedlich mit einander, the women, further, 

 seem to be accepted on the same footing as 

 the men, and to feel themselves so situated. 

 If some lecturers have enlarged the tradi- 

 tional formula of address into meine Herren 

 und Damen, others are more polite and greet 

 the ladies first. The only doubt we heard ex- 

 pressed was whether a woman is fitted by her 

 physique to meet the demands of the highest 

 university education. The majority of the 

 women students, we were told, are planning to 

 become teachers or physicians. Will they be 

 able through the years to support the strain? 



One negative experience on a visit to sev- 

 eral of the leading universities was unex- 

 pected, the failure to meet students of Eng- 

 lish speech, in particular students from our 

 own country. In Berlin we did meet one or 

 two young Englishmen as they came from 

 lecture; and one American professor was 

 hospitanting like ourselves. In Munich we 

 renewed delightful acquaintance with a 

 former pupil working for an advanced de- 

 gree. Of course, there must have been many 

 others whose paths did not cross our own, and 

 in the summer semester the number of Ameri- 

 cans is normally smaller than in winter. But 

 they seem relatively fewer than of old, and 

 the records appear to bear out the observation. 

 For the winter semester, 1911-12, out of 

 57,398 matriculates in all Germany, 338 is 

 the total number assigned to Ameriha, under 

 which no doubt our countrymen formed the 

 most considerable part. And if this be com- 

 pared with the statistics of former years, it 

 will be seen that the number of American 

 students has increased but slowly.' The 



' Beginning with the winter semester, 1904^05 

 (when first the statistics were given in the 

 Deutscher Universitdts-Kalender) the record is as 

 follows : 



From 



Semester Matriculates America 



Winter '04^ '05 39,719 295 



Summer '05 41,533 259 



Winter '05- '06 42,051 298 



Slimmer '06 44,964 274 



Winter '06-'07 45,136 302 



Summer '07 46,655 261 



Winter '07-'08 46,471 304 



Summer '08 47,799 252 



Winter '08-'09 48,717 333 



Summer '09 51,500 298 



Winter '09- '10 52,407 332 



Summer '10 54,393 298 



Winter '10- '11 54,823 398 



Summer '11 57,200 292 



Winter '11- '12 57,398 338 



change gives ground at once for satisfaction 

 and regret. That opportunities for advanced 

 training at home have so developed that there 

 is less relative need for foreign travel, is 

 surely ground for satisfaction. If we are 

 really losing, as appears to be the case, the 

 enlargement which a generation or two ago 

 came to many of our most promising younger 

 scholars through their residence abroad, it is 

 a loss which will make itself felt. In spite of 

 the unquestioned value of German scholar- 

 ship, it was not always that we learned as 

 much as we had expected in the lecture rooms, 

 or in the seminaries themselves. But many 

 of us gained vastly more than we had hoped 

 from our life in a foreign land and acquain- 

 tance with continental culture. Especially 

 was this true of the students of the " human- 

 ities." The exact sciences derive less from 

 environment and the " intellectual climate." 

 But the historian, the economist, the sociol- 

 ogist, the philosopher, the theologian, even the 

 student of literature, if he be more than a 

 " philologer " of the drier type, is confronted 

 by a dilemma. He remains provincial, or he 

 must live himself into the thought of the 

 world. This he will rarely do with full suc- 

 cess unless he shall have shared in foreign 

 culture by personal contact. And the founda- 

 tions of his sympathy are best laid in his 

 " post-graduate " years. 



Of things American, on the contrary, and 

 of American scholarship, much more is heard 

 to-day than formerly. The system of "ex- 



