Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Century British Sea Chanty Rightly or wrongly the Allied Powers dealt beaten Germany a blow beneath the belt in 1919, when they seized virtually the whole German merchant marine of 3,500,000 tons-third largest in the world. From President Paul von Hindenburg down, every German feels today that among the greatest triumphs of Peace must be ranked the Fatherland's astounding feat of building 3,000,000 tons of shipping in the decade since the War. The summer of 1929 was to have seen German mercantile prestige finally restored with added lustre by the completion...
Anthropology 2, Astronomy 1, Biology A, Chemistry 5, Chinese 1, Comp. Literature 11, Economics B, Economics 1a, Economics 2, English 41, Fine Arts 9a, French 9, French 17, French 23hf, German A, German 1b, German 6, Government 6, Government 8, Government 17a, History 11, History 12, History 54, Latin B, Music 3, Paleontology 2, Philosophy 8, Physics B, Physics 1, Psychology 12a, Scandinavian 1, Spanish...
Class. Arch. 1a, Economics A, Economics 8, Economics 32, English 32, English 78, Fine Arts 1a, French 2, French 4, French 7, French 30, German 5, German 18, Government 12a, Government 13a, Greek B, History 46hf, History 57a, Italian 1, Mathematics, C, Military Science 3, Music 1b (at Music Building), Music 4b, Naval Science 3, Philosophy B, Philosophy 1a, Physics C, Physics 4c, Romance Philology, 3, Zoology 1, Zoology...
...accord with the new arrangement German and French are placed on a par with Latin so that a student may offer an advanced knowledge of any one of these three to satisfy the requirement of a reading knowledge of one language. This is in line with the evolution from the strict rules of a number of years ago when it was necessary for under-graduates to appear before an examiner and be questioned individually by reading passages of a language text-book and answering questions on them...
...decision of the faculty to place the advanced French and German examinations of the College Entrance Board on equality with Latin Cp 4 as a satisfaction of the language requirements logically rounds out the recent acceptance for entrance credit of a fourth year at school of a modern language. A slow moving policy of freeing the undergraduate years from most elementary work is thus advanced. And the path of those who are prepared is cleared of the annoying obstacle of a reading examination or college course in a foreign language...