Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty hours would be a feat indeed. The present record is 15½ hrs., made by a German. Germans have mounted 2,500 ft., have traveled 42 mi. in gliders. They have glider clubs at practically all universities. Each year the clubs hold a grand rodeo over the rolling hills of Wasser-kuppe, near Frankfort-am-Main. German flying organizations require that their pilots be graduates of flying schools. There is a Deutscher und Segelfluguerband and a special periodical, Flugsport...
...stay at Harvard, one today and one next Tuesday. Although a comparatively young man. Dr. Habberler is already a statistician of considerable reputation, and in his particular field, that of index numbers, he is unrivaled in Europe. He is lecturing in this country as the representative of the German univerities on a fellowship supported by the Rockefeller Foundation...
...Pugsley Scholar in International Law, deals with the Hungarian situation of racial minorities. It is supplementary to the article by Professor W. L. Langer '15 on the problem of racial minorities in Europe which appeared in last Tuesday's Crimson. Professor Langer's article dealt chiefly with the German side of the question and so interested Dr. Czako that he volunteered the following discussion of the Hungarian situation...
Assistance is given R. L. Hawkins '03. Associate Professor of French, in the publication of hitherto unpublished-letters existent in America, from Frenchmen of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. F. S. Cawley '10. Assistant Professor of German, receives a grant for the publication of an Icelandic Saga: and Walter Silz '17, also Assistant Professor of German, is aided in the publication of work on the German Romanticists...
...regard my own writing as French in form (Saint-Simon's 'Memories' and La Bruyere's Essays), German in sentiment (the music of Bach and Beethoven), and American in eagerness and energy...