Word: darmstadter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Darmstadt, Germany, lives a slender ascetic gentleman in life's early autumn; bald over the temples, high and round of brow, thinly bearded and of a faintly Oriental cast of countenance. He is Count Hermann Keyserling, philosopher. He conducts a School of Wisdom, where mature thinkers go by petition or invitation to contemplate problems of great moment to mankind; where philosophical treatises are conceived, prescribed, submitted, criticized, developed, issued to the world. Count Keyserling's chief preoccupation is with the Western World, whose soul and mind he and others (notably Herr Doktor Oswald Spengler) profess to find...
...Darmstadt, a playwright, one Alfred Doeblin, presented a piece called Lusitania which showed the ship torpedoed, sinking, the passengers cursing, the adventures of the hero and heroine at the bottom of the sea. Nationalists cat-called, booed, stamped with their feet...
...English history, politics literature and modern languages. A short period in Brussels devoted--to the history and the art of the 'Nether'-lands will be followed by two months at the Sorbonne in Paris, where lectures will be mostly in French. During April, the school will be in Darmstadt, Germany, under the supervision of the Grand Duke of Hess, and Count Herman Keyserling, the founder of the school of Philosophy at Darmstadt. Philosophy German history, science and the arts will be studied hers. The School will be in Italy in May where lectures will emphasize art, ancient and medieval history...
...French troops are now occupying two districts in Germany-the Rhine and the Ruhr. Seizures were made last week of the railway yards at Darmstadt, the towns of Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Lorch, Knielingen. The German Ambassador in Paris was informed by the French Government that these occupations are the result of acts of sabotage. A fine of 1,000,000 marks is being collected from the inhabitants of Kettwig for an untraceable act of sabotage. Essen station was seized and all the rolling stock confiscated. For violently attacking newspaper vendors who were selling papers to the French the town of Bochum...