Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-28
WILLIAMS >
 SCHEME. German Emperor to Spread Gut.
Wants Exchange of rrofes. sors Letween l his (oun. try and Cermany--Will
 Lay It Before President Roosevelt.

Berlin, Jan. 2S.-Emperor William has directed the ambassador to the United States, Baron Speck Von Stern burg, to lay before President ROose- vent in official form, the suggestion for an exchange of pro- essors uerween Germany and America that his majes- ty mentioned to Ambassador Tower on New Years day. The ambassador Crosse Jan. 20. only carries an outline of the project which the president will be asked to approve and coop crate in making workable plan. The emperor has invited several German professors to present him with their ideas on the subject. Prof. Adolph Harnack. one of those invited. writes in the Preussische Jahrburcher that the great scholars of the middle ages were not tied fast to any one country
 They lectured at Naples, Bologna, Paris, Cologne and Oxford. and their students followed them. Prof. liar
 mack explains the advantage to stu dents of spending part of their period of study abroad. An exchange of stu dents he adds necessarily suggests an exchange of professors. Only few students can now have the advantage of study abroad, but larger numbers will get that advantage when the pro- lessor himself goes abroad to lecture. He reIers to Lord Kelvin. Sir William Ramsay and Nansen. the explorer, as having lectured in Bernn. Professor Max Mueller Prof. Harnack also points out. came to Strassburg to give lectures while retaining his Oxford professorship. and adds that Prof.
 Gregory, of Leipzig, is American by birth and q professor at a German university. and has given course of lectures in America. The simplest means to inaugurate professorial in- terchange, according to Prof. Har- mack, is to invite distinguished profes- sors from abroad to give courses of four to eight lectures. But this is not enough. The best thing. if it can be done. is to call for an entire six months tour or even longer. In do- ing so, of course. no country will i'm
 port a professor when it has a better one at home. 1t will always be best to let the students hear the language VI thC GColOuIlC uuu social affairs of another country from professor of that country. No amount of industrious study will give German students the insight into these things than he can get from a native of America. It is of all the civilized states the most remote for Germany in space but intellectually the nearest and most closely related.
 '1n exchanging professors" con. tinues Prof. Harnack. i've think in the first instance of America. Harvard and Berlin are already negotiating a plan and will have to begin with eau. ton and within modest limits. If the idea Is sound 1t will then grow 1t. self. Difficulties will have to be over. come. like the six months tours re. ginning and ending at different dates. and no university will be readily will ing to let a favOrite professor off for even a short time. But the difficulties are not insurmountahle. Distance hardly counts any longer. The con. viction that international duties have arisen for men of science will carry the plan to success and this will aid in disseminating. leavening and strengthening the bond of fraternity