The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-17
NEW HARVARD ENTERPRISE
The Study of Man From the Prehis-
tOric Ages in View.


|
A Project to Found Museum to IL
| iustrnte Racial Developments
what the Collections VIII Consist
of-PIups Sox Vuaer Consideration
| BOSTON. March IA general Museum
| of Man, to comprehend prehistoric, an
| cient. and modem civilization, and to il
| lustrate racial and incidentally national
| development. is an ambitious project.
which has not yet been realized anywhere
in the world, but which it is hoped may
/ be brought, in the course of measur-
able number of years, to a reasonable
degree of accomplishment in the great
system of free public museums which is
gradually being built up in Cambridge in
connection with Harvard University.
! Such museum. it is pointed out. would
have much the same relation to the hui
/ n;anities as the Harvard Museum of Com
1 parative Zoology has to the geological
sciences. Like an the Harvard museums
it would he as fully open to the general
! public or the specialist resorting to Cam
bridge from distance AS to the student
or instructor in the college itself. while
having the special advantages of the sta
Bile policy and experienced control that so
with the best university management
The first sections of a Museum of Man
are already in existence in the Peabody
| Museum or American Archaeology and
/ F,tbnoIosv founded bv the late George
! Peabody. of London. and the Semitic
! Museum, recently tablished through
| the penerositv of Jacob RI Schin of
| Nov York rho former is one of the
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I
| respects the very rlchest-in OBJECTS IL
| Illustrating American prehistoric and
| abori-inaI life with valuable sneciaI
80 ,'''l M w -, go 80,
.'o'i9 mn. o'i,e' pa % VI ~ 49,
| Inc latter. winch Is ABOUT 10 ne moved
/ into the new building which Mr.. Schin
| has Just given, is the definite beginning
| of an Oriental N,,se,,r,
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| II 10 tiAeiS tha' tue teNt See'ioh 70 "e
| estabilshed VIII De Germanlc Museum,
dealing with the Germanlc lahds ana
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| -, - ~. Il,
u ITO MN. ~,
coHectioh Wouiu ne unique. 1here are
| legitimate reasons of sentiment, how
| ever apart from the more practical
ones why Harvard may ueu ba fret
| taking.
More than eighty wears ago when Ger
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- {. .i''ite
| IN america Ioethe' through MS American
friend. Joseph Green Cogswell-a graduate
| of Harvard and later we'll known through
| his carly connection with tho Actor IL
r.. - NJ vi, - - ~. II,
pidrS III Ne" 1ofk-seht 10 the harNard
Library some thirty volumes of his own
%orhs' Win a let.er OF inscription testify
ing 10 ms interest IN the Mite New Eng
!dnu colleSe- Inc German original Is lost,
put ihe archives SIN preserve the trdnsta-
tIon.
ne above poetlcal ana scientific works
are presented 10 the library OF the Uni
Verslty al cambridge IN New England as
a mark or deep interest in its nigh literary
character ana IN the successful zeal II has
displayed through so many years for the
| promotion OF sohd and elegant education
with the highest respects of the author
j. w. V. Goethe, Weimar, Aug. II. 1919. "
THE EARLIEST C.FPuAx pRnFpsSopStIIp
Not long afterward, too, the college es-
tablished professorship of German-the
earliest in the limited States-frorn which
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nas s'o" Ine present important depart
ment OF German languages and lftera-
lures with teaching stan at present,
Oh eieNeh professors and instructors, and
oiieflhe' 10 the thousands or more stu
uehIs now taxing herman. nearly forty
oou, 80 Ilon tiie stuGy OF GA Morse to
co.rritetnpoFaTy German literature.
ne usefulness or German Museum to
| st tiS IN the coiieSe Is thus sufficiently
Op' ious; BUT IT'S larger interest is dwelt
on IN the circular. signed by two of the
pIoltsSoES III tne department, Dr. Francke
anu III: 9chlilnS' whlch describes the
pan. AFTER speaking Of the American in
lerest IN modern studles-t rench and Ger
man, for example, instead of Greek and
..The first ir1nuIse On Far az c.o,r,,.,r, =,
concerned. was given by the great epoch
OF German literature at the beginning of
inns century When bancroft and Hedge
a. from their STUDIES
them moi only a fuller eoiiiEuent Of scbni
arshIn bur also a strong antbusi.,s,,, 70
the noble intcII.ctuai ,no,lsn,ont ,,.hiTl
was then shaninp the destin,- ~ ,,odarr
Cernanv EoiIou7ing tbis tbtro -, 81
in tiIIence oT fsis, re W,rcb pe,ni,,tinT
struck a chord 70 ,,bi,.b tn 4 rIari,,o,,
heart vihrated. ana r,bi,, m 49,. :. -
thIs r.yoJutinn Sought a rsfupe in tbIe
country they fonnd here a readT welcome
and intsIIigsnt svmnathv win Carna,,
aspIrations
I'm the friendship between LongfelIow
and Freiligrath this tvofofd affinity he
tween the two countries as To both lit
erarv and political ideals may he said to
have received its most notable symbols
eypression Next there followed the gen
eral adontion of German nathods Of sci
antuc resea rch brought here by the
steadily growing number of American
teachers. physicians. theologians. who
had received the decisive. stimulus for
their life's work at the universities Of
Berlin. Gottingen. or Heidelberg. And
finally the dominant position acquired by
Germany since the war of 1870 gave the
American people a new sense of the dig
nity of the German nation, and kindred
interest in the history of the Teutonic
race"
METHODS THE NI->EIM