Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...tenth annual performance the Deutscher Verein has selected a comedy entitled "Der Steckbrief: ein Lustspiel in drei Aufzuegen," by Roderick Benedix. The scene of the play is laid in a German village on the Rhine...
...play shows the petty German bureaucracy at its best--or worst--and in so far as it illustrates the officiousness and ignorance of some of the less important public servants of the German empire, points a valuable lesson...
...play in the great games. An editorial on the same theme supports Mr. Forbes's argument, quoting in defence President Roosevelt's somewhat illogical utterance in his recent speech in the Union, and attempting a reply to Professor Francke's criticism. But a discussion of the differences between German and American universities does not affect Professor Francke's main point, that President Roosevelt was not justified in assuming that the intercollegiate element in athletics is essential to the achieving of those results in manliness, courage, and physical fitness, the desirability which no one denies...
...important additions to the collection of mediaeval German sculpture have recently been installed in the Germanic Museum. These are full-sized reproductions of the bronze gates of the Augsburg Cathedral and of the crucifixion group from the church of Wechselburg, in Saxony. The former belong to the middle of the eleventh century, and are important evidence of the progress of technique in German plastic art after its beginnings in the Hildesheim School. There are altogether thirty-five panels, each of them containing some symbolical representation of Christian doctrine. The cast was bought partly with money given by the Germanic Department...
...cast of the crucifixion group from the church of Wechselburg was purchased by the Germanic Museum Association. This cast belongs to the first half of the thirteenth century, and is one of the finest specimens of the Romanesque style of German sculpture...