Word: friedrich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred years ago a German schoolmaster named Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel opened in Blankenburg the world's first kindergarten. Lonely, eccentric Friedrich Froebel, who had left school at a tender age to become a forester's apprentice because his teachers thought him a dunce, believed that children were "young plants needing to be nurtured carefully." In the garden of his private academy, which gave the kindergarten its name, Teacher Froebel supervised the play of his neighbors' children in a systematic manner, until his socialistic and irreligious leanings moved the Prussian authorities to close the school...
...Dean of the Rutgers Summer School, Clarence E. Partch, will come to see how the Harvard school works, taking a summer off from his regular job, while Jakob Rosenberg, art critic and formerly Assistant Director of Berlin's Kaiser Friedrich Museum, will lecture on Fine Arts...
Professor Friedrich will outline recent trends in newspaper, radio, and direct action propaganda, then will show the effects of education in neutralizing and nullifying these forces...
...Carl J. Friedrich associate professor of Government, will speak on "Propaganda and Education in the United States" at 9 o'clock this evening over station WAAB in a radio talk sponsored by The Harvard Guardian...
...return of War-great General Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff from the obscurity of a suspect crackbrain to official sanity just as sound as any other German's nowadays, and also to official greatness, was accomplished last week by Adolf Hitler. He and Ludendorff conspired together for the Munich "Beer Hall Putsch" of 1923, marching down the street at the head of their henchmen toward Power- they hoped. When police began shooting to disrupt the putsch, they carefully did not aim at Hero Ludendorff who walked through their fusillade iron-faced, nor was Herr Hitler shot. Knowing that the police...