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Another major benefactor, Adolphus Busch of beer and Clydesdale fame, was more interested in his own cultural roots, so he founded the Germanic Museum in 1903 and turned over a large gift of statues, sculptures and plaster-cast architecture samples to the Museums. Now the Center for European Studies, Busch...
Still, it is useful for nonetymologists to learn that the F word may stem from the Germanic languages (for example, the Middle Dutch fokken, "to thrust, copulate with"); that the word found its way into print as early as the 1550s; and that it was James Joyce, Henry Miller and...
The poet, who received a Master's Degree in 1976 from Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will be remembered by the Harvard community through an annual prize in Finnish Literature established in his honor by the Germanic Languages and Literature Department.
"For the first time, everyone in the English department will have an office," says Professor of Germanic Philology Eckehard Simon, a member of the humanities quad planning committee.
I must also disagree with his argument that the existing core classes are similar to the "rifle shot' narrow courses within broad fields of learning that ruined General Education." I do not know enough to say what "ruined" General Education, but I find the narrow focus of the core courses...