Abstract
PERHAPS the most noteworthy educational event of modern times was the origin and development of the Universities of Berlin and Bonn. After the Battle of Jena and the humiliating Treaty of Tilsit, after the closing of the University of Halle by Napoleon, at a time when Prussia had sunk under the heel of Bonaparte to. the rank of scarcely a third-rate Power, the King, influenced chiefly by the brothers Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt, determined to look to higher education as a means of retrieving his country's? fortunes. Such was, and still is, the faith across the Rhine in the practical value of education to the State. Napoleon got his Treaty of Tilsit, but there were men by the side of the Prussian King with great ideas, men who with stern and far-seeing determination forged weapons which, during the hundred years which have passed since then, in the field, in the laboratory, and in the Seminar, have made Prussia, have made Germany, what they are to-day.
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