Word: german
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francke had gotten together enough money for the present building, most of it given by Adolphus Busch, of brewery fame. The work was completed just about the time the U. S. entered the war, but anti-German feeling was so strong that the building did not open until 1921. Rumors circulated in Cambridge that the Museum was a German spy center; other reports asserted that the building's concrete foundations had been especially designed as an enemy gun emplacement...
...again. The only parts of Museum tradition that have not been revived since the war are the Harvard Dramatic Club's Christmas passion play, and the goldfish in the courtyard pond. But the building's remaining activities and inhabitants are as diverse as its styles of architecture. Classes in German, Swedish, and Norwegian share the rambling classrooms under the eaves on the third floor with the microphones and wire recorders of Professor Packard's speech department. The second floor is inhabited by an organ, one of the few in the country whose sound approaches that of the type used...
Down on the ground floor, there are exhibits from the Museum's collection of German medieval and renaissance painting and sculpture. In the last two years, the Museum has developed a flair for the modern, supplementing its Gothic saints and saviours with shocking heresies like the recent exhibit from the Bauhans, which includes abstractionist chess sets and stained glass made of beer bottle bottoms. Visitors are a little surprised by the new trend, but on the whole they seem to like it. The only ones who are disappointed are the two or three a day who wander...
Captain Bill Rickenbacker and Hugh Nawn were the Crimson's only winners, while Dave German was tied on the eighteenth hole and didn't play off the game, since the team had already lost. Rickenbacker was low man with a 70, but two Williams players scored...
...varsity summary: Rickenbacker won, 3 and 2. O'Keeffe lost, 3 and 2. Matson lost, 2 and 1. Nawn won, 2 and 1. Mee lost, 3 and 2. German tied, eighteenth hole. Seager lost...