A MONUMENT TO CARL SCHURZ
Lochner, Louis P.
A Monument to Carl Schurz. By LOUIS P. LOCHNER THE FIRST great monument to be erected to the memory of America's most distinguished German-born citizen, the late Carl Schurz, was dedicated with...
...They raised the great bulk of the $30,000 endowment...
...In choosing the manner of perpetuating Carl Schurz' memory, the University of Wisconsin, in the words of Carl Schurz, Jr., "could not have found a way more fully in accord with his own ideas and wishes than by establishing a chair to be filled from time to time by professors from the universites of his old Fatherland...
...For with all his activities in various fields there was always uppermost the encouragement of educational progress, particularly when this could be combined with the spreading and keeping alive of German ideals...
...Eighty per cent...
...It is, as the venerable General Frederick C. Winkler said in presenting the memorial, "a monument not of bronze or of stone, but in the form of an endowment of scholarship, in memory of a man whose life was one of intellectual achievement...
...The Harvard Exchange Professor and the Kaiser Wilhelm Professor at Columbia have exerted a tremendous influence upon contemporary thought in this country, but their sphere of operation has been necessarily restricted largely to the universities...
...The Carl Schurz Memorial Professorship will fulfill the three-fold function of perpetuating the memory of a name that is dear to Germans and Americans alike, of bringing to the State of Wisconsin, and especially to its university, some noted German scholar every other year, and of knitting faster than ever before the bonds of friendship between the United States and Germany...
...Though they are glad to have their sons and daughters at the university receive the first-fruits of his endeavors on American soil, they have arranged that the Schurz Professor shall divide his time between conducting classes at the university and giving lectures of more or less popular nature throughout the state...
...He is not only to lecture at the university, but he is to bring to the people of the whole state of Wisconsin a more intimate knowledge of the life, aspirations and achievements of the Fatherland...
...The Schurz Professorship is interesting from a number of viewpoints...
...Schurz, though for a time a soldier, was a man of peace, and encouraged every means of furthering international good will...
...of the citizens of Wisconsin are German born or of German extraction...
...German exchange professors have during the last few years been brought to America, but not under the auspices of state institutions...
...That this is important for an institution which relies for its support upon the state that maintains it needs hardly to be emphasized...
...What more fitting memorial could have been thought of than the Professorship, which will bind into a firmer knot the bonds of friendship and good will, of mutual respect and recognition of a close relation, between the land of the Danube and the Rhine and the broad fields of our American Republic...
...By LOUIS P. LOCHNER THE FIRST great monument to be erected to the memory of America's most distinguished German-born citizen, the late Carl Schurz, was dedicated with appropriate exercises at the University of Wisconsin on March 31...
...In this manner the Schurz Professor will be instrumental in bringing together more closely than ever before the people of the state and their university...
...They are anxious—and rightly so—also to be benefited by the presence of the best of German scholars...
...Not so with the Carl Schurz Professor...
Vol. 3 • May 1911 • No. 18
