The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-01-26

recht are revered in Leipzig and the
halls n studios where ne did his
life work have become places of pill
ghrimage. That building has for more
than a hundred years been the seat
Of German culture. Within its walls
dwelt Johann Christoph Gottsched.
who vastly extended the horizon OF
German culture i'm the first half OF
the eighteenth century.
Leipzig Made Classical Center.
Gottsched made leipzig the seat Of
this classical movement. he gave the
movement its direction. its textbooks
and. with his wife's assistance, its
models by means of her translations
of the best specimens of French clas-
sic drama. and he did more than any
other man OF his time to make the
German people accept the theatre as
an institution.
When his work along these lines
had been taken up by more masterful
spirits and given a vastly more pro
found significance Gottsched did not
become either embittered or idle. He
did a genuine service in the task Of
normallZing the structure and giving
elegance 70 the texture of the German
language.
Some OF the stairways and halls
by which we reached the collections
OF the institute of Culture and Uni
Versal History passed throuch the
apartments Gottsched and his wife
used 10 occupy. Al the first landing
of the first stairway a bronze medal
lion showing Gottschcd in life size
has been let into the wall.
Gothic Student at Leipzig.
Il is a massive work and fl is given
a special splendor by the simplicity
OF the surroundings. In these cham
bers. too. moved the young Gothic in
ms early Leipzig days.
Coming ont OF the past. We were
introduced TO the present again by
Prof. GOetz. a young man who a few
months ago was being addressed by
the men of his battalion as Major
GOetz. Early in the war he left his
professors chair for the front. He
was wounded and returned 70 his posi-
as successor 20 Lamprecht in tho In.
stifute Tor culture and Unive-s sal His.
tory.
10 was after Q o'clock when Prof.
Goetz finished his talk 10 as on the
work Of the institute. and then We
were photographed On ono or the
courts OF the university. tho rector
being forced into the center OF tho
group.
After the lecture we marched 10
the hotel. where there awaited us o.
meal that was called luncheon. n
comprised soup. fish. lamb chops.
three kinds OF vegetables. butter.
bread that vas nearly an wheat flour.
% pudding. wine and coffee. ] have
given tho emu as a sidclight on the
food situation IN Germany.
Lecture Given on Physics.
More lectures followed the meal.
AZ = o'clock there was o. discourse.
illustrated by experiments. on physics
in The university laboratories in Lin.
nestr0sse. Privy Councillor Professor
Doctor Wiener was The lecturer.
Among fhe experiments were some
in four color photoeraphy that were
marvellous
~ q o'clock there was lecture on
philosophy bob tho middle ages By hIs
eNcollerCy Professor Doctor Wilhelm
Nundt. tho ncstor OF the university.
BE- b. more than So years old. but BEL
stIll active Nor docs Doe dwell BOO tho
past 80 fhn close OF Che lecture hs
talked with extraordinary penetration
Ou phases OF tho present crisis.
Hut DO YOU think tho Cay was closed
with Prof Wurdfs discourse No.
OFF aiI' SIN hours OF survey OF other
phases of Le'pzIes culture awaited ue