Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hughes is in strange distinction from the figures obtained in similar tests elsewhere resulting in victory for Wilson or in practical draws or in very slight favor of Hughes; (2) the expressions of admiration for Hughes here are pronouncedly militaristic and pro-Ally, whereas it is the pro-German throughout the country who are preparing to "strafe" Wilson for his independent Americanism; and (3) the phrases most frequently uttered by Harvard Hughes boomers have to do with every subject on earth except the sole (visible and the apparently eternal issue) of a Republican high tariff, sufficiently recognized by the rest...
...letter you published this morning is indeed an astonishing document. Mr. de Rosay does not share the ideals for which Norman Prince died, therefore he objects to the erection of a monument in Prince's memory, and objects in the name of tolerance! That surpasses German logic; it is positively Bulgarian...
...branches of the service had of course been elected by these heroes and their many surviving fellows--the British and French armies themselves, the Foreign Legion of France, the medical corps of the armies, the American Ambulance Service, and the various Harvard surgical units. Fritz Daur served in the German army and two other Harvard men have been with him there--one in the military service and the other in the medical corps. It has not been given to all that the hour of their last sacrifice should fall in circumstances of such signal bravery and of such special interest...
...meet the demand of men who intend to enter business houses in foreign countries, conversation courses have been instituted at Harvard in German, Spanish and French. But these very courses are allowed to be over-run with formal grammar and written translations. The conspicuous characteristic of such courses is the students' silence. Usually the conversation in the particular foreign language is limited to the professor's monologue. The mistake lies in the impossible attempt to weld both practical and cultural aims. Since poetry is not taught in conjunction with plumbing, why should art be combined with the language of foreign...
...German...