Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cornerstone of the new Germanic Museum, which will be situated on Kirkland street, between Frisbie place and Divinity avenue, was laid on Saturday noon by Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, Imperial German Ambassador to the United States. Mr. Adolphus Busch, of St. Louis, through whose gift of $250,000 the building of the museum was realized, was unable to attend the exercises and was represented by his wife and his son-in-law, Mr. Hugo Reisinger, of New York...
...Glee Club then sang three of the old German hymns, "Machet die Thore Weit," "Ein Feste Burg," and "Das ist der Tag des Herrn." After the singing of the hymns the guests went to the site of the new museum, where the cornerstone was ready to be lowered. Ambassador von Bernstorff performed the ceremony of laying the stone, and then stepped forward to address the guests. He stated that he deemed it a great honor to be present at the exercises and he thanked Harvard University for this honor, conveying also the personal congratulations of the German Emperor...
...Luncheon for Count von Bernstorff, German Ambassador to the United States; in Union; under auspices of the Cosmopolitan Club, the Deutscher Verein, and the Germanic Museum Association...
...Louis, whose donation of $250,000 forms the greater part of the total amount subscribed to the building fund, will be present. Professor Kuno Francke, of the department of German, and Curator of the museum will have charge of the exercises, and Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, Imperial German Ambassador at Washington has accepted an invitation to speak. Mr. Andrew D. White, former American Ambassador at Berlin has also been invited to attend...
...Germanic Museum, in the triangle at Broadway, Cambridge and Quincy streets, and will then proceed to the site of the new building, on the corner of Divinity avenue and Kirkland street. The exercises will consist of the actual laying of the cornerstone and an address by Ambassador von Bernstorff...