AMERICAN-GERMAN AMENITIES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7950, 27 January 1906, Page 3

AMERICAN-GERMAN AMENITIES.

In the American Review of Reviews there is an interesting article on the aoademic interchange of professors between America and Germany. which was first suggested by the Kaiser and carried into effect by President Butler, of Columbia. "A professorship of American history and institutions, to be kuown as the 4 Theodore Roosevelt Professorship, j£ (and) established in the University *-' of Berlin by and under the general direction of Columbia University. Inoumbents are to be appointed by the Prussian Ministry of Education, with the sanction of the Emperor, upon nomination of the trustees of Columbia. The converse of tnis proposition—what may bo called the reverse of this educational shield--is the establishment by tbe . German Government at Columbia University of a professorship of German history and institutions, to be maintained and conducted precisely as the American professorship will be and conducted in Berlin. The lectures at Berlin will be delivered in German, those at Columbia in English. The authorx ities at Columbia hope that this is but the first of a number of similar professorships to he established as opportunity and means are afforded. It is quite possible that before very long similar arrangements will be made with at leas'; one English University, and with the University of Paris. This undertaking has been made possible by the intelligent generosity of Mr James Speyer, of Now York City, who haß placed in the bands of the trustees of Columbia the Bum of 50,000 dollais for the endowment of this professorship. Tbe trustees of Columbia have already nominated, as the first incumbent of the new ohair, John William Burgess, Ph.D., LL.D., Ruggles professor of political science and constitutional law and dean of the faculty of political ecienee in Columbia University-to enter upon his duties at University of Berlin in the winter of 1906-7, giving instruction in American political history. The appointment will undoubtedly be immediately confirmed by the Prussian Government.