Bostonia Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: influence, and many have studied under his personal instruction. Through them that influence has been passed on directly to many thousands of children. Says one ... more »of those teachers who partook of the opportunities so provided, but speaking for all, " We are thankful to Professor Hyatt for his spirit — modest, earnest, simple, sincere man that he was : with no proclamation of achievement, with no elaborate organization of knowledge, he taught us to seek for the simple truth for its own sake ........ A feeling of personal loss comes over each of his pupils in the School of Science. In the coming years he will remain in our memories as an ideal gentleman, a true teacher, and a sincere friend." THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS. Prof. Freeman M. Josselyn, Ph.D. THE recent exchange of scholarships between Columbia University and the University of Paris has again attracted attention to the latter, and the American student who is going to Europe to study may well consider carefully his choice before allowing himself to be decided by the momentum of past facts. By far the largest foreign factor in American scholarship is German. Most of our professors are German trained and have German degrees, and it is most natural that they in their turn should direct their students toward Germany. And the time has not yet come, if it ever shall, to question the correctness of this in many branches. Still, to a student who is to work in Romance languages the benefit of a German training is not too clear. Shall such a one make his major study German and his minor Romance philology, or shall he make his major French — the most important of all the languages in which he specializes ? And as regards his minor, will he not be in good hands in Paris, under Gaston Paris, Paul Meyer, A. Thomas, and Morel-Fatio ?...« less