Eminent Teacher Research Articles

Heidelberg and Academic Freedom

THE University of Heidelberg is to celebrate this year the five hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its foundation, and it is proposed to give to the commemoration more than national significance. To this end, invitations to participate are being sent out widely, and universities and learned societies in Great Britain are being invited to send delegates. The Bishop of Durham, in a letter in The Times of February 4 discussing these invitations, quotes from the opening of the article on the dedication of the Philipp-Lenard-Institut at Heidelberg, which appeared in NATURE of January 18 (p. 93). This account, he says, demonstrates that the influence of the racial fanaticism which has swept over Germany and its universities has been specially severe in Heidelberg. In his opinion, which is held by many other intellectual leaders, “The appearance of British representatives at the Heidelberg celebration, and the presenting by them of congratulatory addresses, could not but be understood everywhere as a public and deliberate condonation of the intolerance which has emptied the German universities of many of their most eminent teachers.”

Mathematics in the Schools

The teaching of mathematics has been brought to so high a pitch of excellence by the eminent teachers of the past century that it may be thought there is little scope for improvement in their methods. Since the radical revision of our geometry text-books towards the end of the nineteenth century, when modern methods first superseded the age-old system of Euclid, we find no fundamental change of doctrine until we come to consider the place of trigonometry and of the calculus in present-day curricula.

Mathematics in the Schools

The teaching of mathematics has been brought to so high a pitch of excellence by the eminent teachers of the past century that it may be thought there is little scope for improvement in their methods.Since the radical revision of our geometry text-books towards the end of the nineteenth century, when modern methods first superseded the age-old system of Euclid, we find no fundamental change of doctrine until we come to consider the place of trigonometry and of the calculus in present-day curricula.

The caudal fin of fishes (preliminary paper)

The aim of the present paper is to give, as concisely as possible, the summary of two years' work on the caudal fins of fishes and also to revise the definitions relating to the different types of caudal fin. The revision of the definitions of old established names such as protocercy, heterocercy, etc., has proved to be quite essential owing to the vagueness and even errors connected with these terms so much in evidence in text-books of zoology; this vagueness undoubtedly exists, or otherwise such mistakes as attributing diphycercy to such types as the Gadidæ and the eels would not occur as they do. I have also been assured by several eminent teachers of zoology that the subject needs clearing up. The whole of my work has included the examination of well over a hundred different species of fishes representative of nearly all the sub-groups of Teleosts, several Ganoids, and a few Elasmobranchs. Probably the most interesting results have been obtained from the Gadidæ and Apodes and the frequent misinterpretations to be read on the caudal fin of these groups has convinced me that caudal fins have not been subjected to a sufficiently close structural examination; for this reason I have made a point of examining microscopically every tail fin, and have invariably subjected each one to clearing agents, a process which has revealed many features it is impossible to recognise by mere dissection.

Two Eminent Teachers Horatio B. Hackett and Augustus Tholuck

Previous articleNext article FreeTwo Eminent Teachers Horatio B. Hackett and Augustus TholuckHenry S. BurrageHenry S. Burrage Search for more articles by this author PDF Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Religion Volume 26, Number 2Aug., 1905 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/473620 Views: 24 Citations: 1Citations are reported from Crossref Journal History This article was published in The Biblical World (1893-1920), which is continued by The American Journal of Theology (1897-1920). Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Atif Khalil, Shiraz Sheikh Editorial Introduction, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 43, no.33 (Sep 2014): 355–370.https://doi.org/10.1177/0008429814538226

The practical medicine series, of year books. Edited By eminent specialists and teachers, under the general editorship of GUSTAVUS P. HEAD, M.D., professor of Laryngology and Rhinology, Chicago Post Graduate School

The practical medicine series, of year books. Edited By eminent specialists and teachers, under the general editorship of GUSTAVUS P. HEAD, M.D., professor of Laryngology and Rhinology, Chicago Post Graduate School

Recent Literature The American Year-Book of Medicine and Surgery . Being a Yearly Digest of Scientific Progress and Authoritative Opinion in All Branches of Medicine and Surgery, drawn from Journals, Monographs and Text-Books of the Leading American and Foreign Authors and Investigators. Collected and arranged, with critical editorial comments, by eminent American specialists and teachers. Under the general editorial charge

Recent Literature The American Year-Book of Medicine and Surgery . Being a Yearly Digest of Scientific Progress and Authoritative Opinion in All Branches of Medicine and Surgery, drawn from Journals, Monographs and Text-Books of the Leading American and Foreign Authors and Investigators. Collected and arranged, with critical editorial comments, by eminent American specialists and teachers. Under the general editorial charge

Recent Literature The American Year-Book of Medicine and Surgery . Being a yearly digest of scientific progress and authoritative opinion in all branches of medicine and surgery, drawn from journals, monographs and text-books, of the leading American and foreign authors and investigators. Collected and arranged, with critical editorial comments by eminent American specialists and teachers, under the general editorial charge

Recent Literature The American Year-Book of Medicine and Surgery . Being a yearly digest of scientific progress and authoritative opinion in all branches of medicine and surgery, drawn from journals, monographs and text-books, of the leading American and foreign authors and investigators. Collected and arranged, with critical editorial comments by eminent American specialists and teachers, under the general editorial charge

Recent Literature The American Year-Book of Medicine and Surgery . Being a Yearly Digest of Scientific Progress and Authoritative Opinion in all branches of Medicine and Surgery, drawn from Journals, monographs and text-books of the leading American and foreign authors and investigators. Collected and arranged with critical editorial comments by eminent American specialists and teachers, under the general editorial charge

Recent Literature The American Year-Book of Medicine and Surgery . Being a Yearly Digest of Scientific Progress and Authoritative Opinion in all branches of Medicine and Surgery, drawn from Journals, monographs and text-books of the leading American and foreign authors and investigators. Collected and arranged with critical editorial comments by eminent American specialists and teachers, under the general editorial charge

Recent Literature Clinical Gynæcology, Medical and Surgical . For Students and Practitioners. By eminent American teachers. Edited by John M. Keating, M.D., LL.D., and by Henry C. Coe, M.D., M.R.C.S., Professor of Gynæcology, New York Polyclinic. Illustrated. Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott Company. 1895.

Recent Literature Clinical Gynæcology, Medical and Surgical . For Students and Practitioners. By eminent American teachers. Edited by John M. Keating, M.D., LL.D., and by Henry C. Coe, M.D., M.R.C.S., Professor of Gynæcology, New York Polyclinic. Illustrated. Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott Company. 1895.

The New University Question

THE correspondence between Prof. Huxley and Prof. Pearson which has appeared in the Times is not pleasant reading. With infinite pains and trouble an Association had been formed to support the foundation in London of a university of a certain type. A nucleus of the most eminent teachers or ex-teachers in London had collected around them a powerful body of supporters from the provinces. In Prof. Huxley as President, and Sir Henry Roscoe as Vice-President, the Association secured the services of two men distinguished both as professors and for their knowledge of affairs. It appears to have been less fortunate in its secretary. Prof. Karl Pearson had some difference with his fellow committeemen on a question of procedure. He himself has described the divergence as not fundamental and has publicly stated that he believes that the other members of the committee were aiming at securing the establishment of a university of the type which he himself approves. So comparatively trifling was the issue, that, according to Prof. Huxley, Prof. Pearson himself proposed that the reason to be given for his resignation should be “pressure of work.” No doubt can therefore exist as to the cogency of this motive. His position was apparently even more clearly defined by his not voting against the course of action proposed on the occasion of a meeting which was shortly to take place between the Senate of the University of London and the Committee of the Association, and by his spontaneously pledging himself “to say nothing as a member of the deputation, contrary to what was then agreed to.”

Ohio State Sanitary Association.

—The Second Annual Meeting of this organization will be held at Columbus, Ohio, on February 5 and 6, 1885. Full programme for the meeting will be issued in due time by the Secretary, R. Harvey Reed, M.D., of Mansfield, Ohio. Prof. Darling, for many years well known as an eminent teacher of Anatomy in the Medical Department of the University of New York, died on the 25th inst. Dr. Edward Jarvis, one of the most philanthropic and deservedly eminent members of the profession in Massachusetts, recently died in Boston at the advanced age of 81 years.

John Hutton Balfour

IN Prof. Balfour, whose death we announced in our last issue (p. 365), has passed away another of that group of eminent teachers, including Goodsir, Syme, Simpson, Christison, &c., which maintained the reputation and added lustre to the fame and prestige of the Medical School in our great northern University during the middle decades of this century; one, too, of that band of working British botanists of the first half of the century which counted amongst its members the Hookers. Munby, Carmichael, Greville, Walker Arnott, Babington, Parnell, Prior, the Macnabs, &c., the majority of whom have now left us; and where are their successors? By his death a figure—in later years picturesque with grey locks and patriarchal beard—familiar all over Scotland, and where scientific men do congregate, has been removed. Few men were more universally esteemed and popular, and few quit their sphere of active and busy life leaving behind them more pleasant reminiscences than he whose decease we have recorded. Compelled by failing health to retire about five years ago from public life, his powers since then gradually weakened, until on the nth inst. he quietly breathed his last.

On Beauty of Touch and Tone: An Inquiry Into the Physiological and Mechanical Principles Involved in Their Cultivation

The subject of this paper, “Beauty of Touch and Tone,” is one which however admirably it may be exemplified in the public performances of many—unhappily not all—of our leading artists, however conscientiously it may be inculcated by our most eminent teachers, is, in the playing and singing of too many of our amateurs, conspicuous only by its absence; and I can but think that, from the generality of the members of the musical profession, it does not receive that amount of attention which its importance demands, and which the rapid extension of musical education in some other directions might lead us to expect.