As for the Assistant Director, Professor John Herbart of the Philosophy College, he was evidently easier to handle than Professor Dalman.
During these days, aside from requesting Arthur to follow the usual custom: to write a motivational article for the students before the official start of the new semester, Dalman made no other demands.
Moreover, this typically stern and somewhat old-fashioned German professor even privately offered rare high praise for Arthur's piece "Sending Stendal's Bismarck."
Herbart believed that although the article's language was plain, it expressed genuine feelings, deeply moving, and highlighted the main theme of motivating students, without entangling the pure campus in current fierce political disputes.
If it weren't for seeing it with his own eyes, Herbart would find it very hard to believe that such an article could be penned by a 24-year-old young man.
