Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...these hours of suspense a great, tragic conflict shakes the hearts of millions of American citizens of German birth or descent. For nearly three years our brothers on the other side of the Atlantic have held at bay a world of enemies. The terrible hardships of trench warfare, aided by enemy bullets and shrapnel, thinned their ranks--spread over a front of thousands of miles. England's starvation blockade, which the American Government itself admitted to be "illegal and indefensible," finds its daily victims among the children and the aged behind the fronts. The few letters that reach...
...flat under which we live and prosper. Our hearts are bleeding at the thoughts of fratricide, but they must bleed. We will shame those that would cast the odium of disloyalty on us. In all our history no traitor has been found, not will be found, among citizens of German origin. G. PRIESTER...
...must be young men in the prime of life and in the best of health, and, furthermore, the successful military aviator must have the equivalent of a college education or at least be on a level intellectually with the average college undergraduate." He pointed out that the French and German aviators at the beginning of the war were mostly chauffeurs who had to carry officers with them to make the necessary observations. Lately, however, the aviators have been drawn from men of officer calibre who can do all their reconnoitering alone, thus increasing the efficiency of the aero corps tremendously...
Following is the list of mid-year examinations to be given today and tomorrow under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences together with the rooms assigned to each: Examinations Today. Anthropology 8 Emerson A Chemistry 9 Holden Education 15 Holden English 4 Emerson A French 23 Harvard 5 German A Prof. Bierwirth's sect. Upper Mass. Dr. Burkhard's sects. Harvard 6 Mr. Brewer's sects. Emerson D Dr. Cawley's sect. 3, Harvard 3 Dr. Cawley's sects. 6, 7, Harvard 5 Dr. Herrick's sect. Upper Mass. Dr. Pettengill's sect. Upper Mass. Dr. Schoenemann's sect. Upper...
...commerce by a host of raiders, we will be confronted by two facts. First, the submarines can make no provision for the safety of the crews of the vessels destroyed, and intend to sink merchant ships on sight. Such action of course is a direct repudiation of all German promises to America. The second apparent fact is that Germany has had the insolence to dictate to us just how many ships we may send to England, when they must arrive, what port they must sail to, and how they must be painted! As she has no blockade, Germany has absolutely...