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Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen, 1842-1927

"Recollections of My Childhood and Youth"

Point out the special contributions to a philosophical definition of
the Idea made by Aesthetics in particular.
3. What are the merits and defects of Schiller's tragedies?
These questions, in conjunction with the main question, may well be
designated a piece of contemporary history; they depict exactly both the
Science of the time and the peculiar philosophical language it adopted.
Hardly more than one, or at most two, of them could one imagine set to-
day.
After the final (and best) lecture, on Schiller, which was given at six
hours' notice on April 25th, the judges, Hauch, Nielsen and Broechner,
deliberated for about ten minutes, then called in the auditors and R.
Nielsen read aloud the following verdict: "The candidate, in his long
essay, in the shorter written tests, and in his oral lectures, has
manifested such knowledge of his subject, such intellectual maturity,
and such originality in the treatment of his themes, that we have on
that account unanimously awarded him the mark: _admissus cum laude
praecipua_."

XVII.
The unusually favourable result of this examination attracted the
attention of academical and other circles towards me. The mark
_admissus cum praecipua laude_ had only very rarely been given
before. Hauch expressed his satisfaction at home in no measured terms.


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