Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admission requirement permitting the credit of four years French or German comes in answer to a long-felt need of preparatory schools. In their attempt to give men the thorough survey of modern languages which Harvard expects, schools have been much handicapped by a limitation at the point where a language is just beginning to interest the student. The new regulation should stimulate more study of French and German In school, and consequently lead to a lightening of the burdens of Harvard's language requirements in college...
...some time a reading knowledge of Latin has been accepted in place of one of the two modern languages, and in fulfillment of this the Cp 4 admission examination has been accepted in place of the reading knowledge test in college. Now that four years of French or German can be offered before admission, a logical step would permit all the reading knowledge requirements to be anticipated by good grades in the Cp 4 examinations...
Four years of French and German will be accepted for admission to Harvard College in the future, it was announced yesterday by C. H. Moore '89, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Hitherto only three years of the two languages could be taken for admission credit. The change was proposed to the Faculty by the Committee on Admissions and was ratified at a conference last Tuesday...
...money of the late Adolphus Busch of St. Louis and the late George Ehret of Manhattan poured freely in to establish Deutsches Haus. It was intended to be a focal point of German culture at Columbia and in Manhattan. But German culture, like Wagner operas at the Metro politan Opera House, disappeared from Manhattan during the War. Only last week did this last War-bred taboo disappear from Columbia...
...Manhattan as the curtain rose on the last performance of the German Grand Opera Company, Walter Elschner, its stage manager, died. He had worked day and night planning and preparing the staging of the Ring operas, snatching rare naps stretched out on chairs in a box at the Opera House, until he suffered a nervous collapse, pneumonia, swift death...