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Marxist-Leninist philosophy

On which source is the following statement based: "In the 20th century, Tübingen became dominated first by Marxist-Leninist philosophy"?

In their book "Eine deutsche Universitaet - 500 Jahre Tübinger Gelerntenrepublik", Walter and Inge Jens describe the university in the 1920s as dominated by "Deutschnationale" and "kaisertreue Gerlernten". A quote: "Kein Wunder, bei alledem, dass die überwältigen Majoritet der Eberhardina weder eine Reichsgründungsfeier ... noch einen Langemarck-Tag oder ein Sonnwendfest vorbeigehen liess, ohne den Staat von Weimar, dieses Zufalls-Gebilde einer Steckrüben-Revolution, zu verhöhnen...", "... dass man ein solches Ansinnen [the integration of the university in a democratic society] von vornherein als indiskutabel etikettierte: ein sozialistischer Eingriff der Lehrfreiheit und die verbrieften Rechte der universitären Oligarchie!"—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.138.191.223 (talk • contribs).

Overall improvement plan

We discussed this page with my writing class at the University of Tübingen. Their homework was actually to add to and improve this page but as yet nothing has materialised.

Suggestions for new sections were:

Organisation of the university

Social life

Research focus

Campus

A properly labelled history section.

Famous alumni

Have I forgotten anything?

David WC2 16:12, 21 January 2007 (UTC)David_WC2[reply]

My students have now started work on this page, and I think their contributions have lots of potential. David WC2 18:13, 22 January 2007 (UTC)David WC2[reply]

I've started to edit and improve the additions, but some sections still seem to need a fair bit of work to bring them up to Wikipedia standards (the Student Life section in particular does not seem to adhere to conventions). I'll try to continue improvements over the next while. --Iwouldstay 16:42, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for your work, some good additions, referencing and changes. Most commendable. When I get all my marking done I'll do a bit on it myself. David WC2 08:34, 31 January 2007 (UTC)David WC2[reply]

I've rewritten the Student life section in order to bring it more in line with Wikipedia writing conventions. Consequently, I've removed the note about advert style.

I've also reorganised the page slightly and have moved most of the first paragraph into a separate History section. The content of this section still requires a thorough edit and expansion, though.

As a minor point, I've renamed 'Famous alumni' to 'Notable alumni', as not all of them are necessarily famous. On the whole, the main points suggested by you (see above) should have been dealt with, but a lot of the article could still do with expansion and further improvement.--Iwouldstay 12:40, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]