Germany. University life seen through American eyes. Tupper, 1900-1901 - Economics in the Rear-View Mirror

Rich description of aspects of academic life from student through professor at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin in 1900-01.

Friedrich-Wilhelms-University at Berlin, ca 1900. Serendipity strikes again: Your curator of Economics in the Rear-View Mirror was culling yearbooks of the University of Vermont in the vain hope of finding a photo of the economist Charles W. Mixter when he came upon the following short essay. While the following account of German academic life from student through professor was written by a Vermont professor of English, enough North American economists received their training in Germany by the turn of the 20th century that the felicitous descriptions found below should be of great interest for

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