The German universities for the last fifty years / by Dr. J. Conrad, authorized translation by John Hutchinson and a preface by James Bryce.

  • Conrad, J. (Johannes), 1839-1915.
Date:
1885
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Credit: The German universities for the last fifty years / by Dr. J. Conrad, authorized translation by John Hutchinson and a preface by James Bryce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (4) How to ]3i’ovide additional teachers for the leading l»ranches of instruction without breaking up tlie pro- fessorial system and increasing the expense of a university course. (5) How to secure a good average of attainments in stu- ft dents entering the universities, and thereby establish a health- i’ul relation between them and the schools. The experience of Germany bears upon all these points, except, perhaps, the last of those in the Englisli list. I must be content \vith adverting to three or four of them only. As respects England, the contrast between the number of students attending the German universities and the total of students at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dur- ham, and the new university at Manchester (London Univer- sity, not being a teaching body, does not come into the reclconing) is very striking. Germany witli a population of 45^ millions had in 1882-3 24,187 students. Eng- land with her population of 26 millions liad less than 5,500. Hothing could more oleaiiy indicate the failure of the English system to reach and ser\e all classes, }-et in England the afflux of students has largely in- creaseil. Thirty years ago Oxford and Cambi’idge had only half their present numbers, and the Owens College at Manchester, out of which the new university has h