Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small undergraduate roster of the German Department is a mystery to its heads and the students in it. Their field is different from something like History and Literature, which lures so many freshmen, only in that the work is less taxing...
Prospective concentrators in Germanic Languages and Literatures should not enter the field under the illusion that they will get linguistic training. Comparative Philology is the field for that. Even if they are new to German they will take probably only two language courses, German A and German C or D, neither of which is so painful as it is often reported...
From there on in, the emphasis is on literature. German 50, a Survey of German History and Culture, is the usual introduction to this section of the field. These who took the course this year cheered it almost unanimously...
Professor Karl Vietor's German 120, a Goethe course, and German 150, German Literature since 1900, were among the most popular of the more advanced courses...
...much as the German concentrators and the German faculty comprise a close knit, friendly unit where help is easily available for the students, marks rarely go below B minus in the advanced courses...