RUDOLF EUCKEN.

With the announcement that Professor Rudolf Eucken is to be with us next year as exchange professor of Philosophy from the University of Jena, we are reminded forcibly of the great success of the system of exchange professors as inaugurated by Harvard. To secure Professor Eucken is a master-stroke of fortune, for he is one of the greatest living teachers and interpreters of philosophy. His work has extended mainly in two directions: his early study and writings were devoted to the history and interpretation of philosophy; later he turned his efforts to systematic philosophy and to the conception of an idealism whose main object is to overcome the conflict between religion and modern science. He has been honored with degrees by the greatest universities of the world, and won the Nobel prize for literature in 1908. In all his work Professor Eucken has displayed the powers of genius. We are most fortunate to secure an opportunity to study under this famous scholar.