Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Text Book Loan Library was started in 1906, primarily to reduce the expenses of students working their way through college. There are at present 3500 books on the shelves, of which 2000 are French and German readers and grammars. The average number of books withdrawn yearly reaches 700. The number of volumes is being increased every year by regular collections and by the gifts of numerous friends. The depository fee is ten or fifteen cents, depending on the book to be loaned; all but five cents is given back when the book is returned by the borrower...
Herr Shuecking, German pacifist leader, characterizes the rejection of the Treaty of Versailles as a "tremendous moral victory for the cause of universal peace." Of course what the Herr Professor means is that it is a tremendous moral victory for Germany, in which he is entirely correct. He then goes on to point out that in the League America has only one vote to England's six, and deplores such a terrible state of affairs, where darling America, whom Germany loves so much, would be England's "hand-maiden." With a little dig at the wickedness of "imperialistic Japan...
...striking similarity between the arguments of the Germans and those of the Johnson-Borah-Reed group does not need to be pointed out. Those of the first are frankly German; those of the worthy Senators, according to their own valuation, are "one hundred per cent. American." But it only takes two per cent, perspicacity to see that the latter are just as German as the former--whether through ignorance or malice, it is hard to tell...
...Senators can wave the American flag and shout their Fourth of July oratory till they are black in the face; actions speak louder than words. Over all the turmoil there is still audible the faint flapping noise of the Prussian eagle's wings. The German's can be excused. They are Germans. The Senators, however, will find that they will have some quick explaining to do at the next elections before the American people will excuse them...
During its three and a half years of service the Hospital took care of over 150,000 casualties. This is greater than the total reported wounded of the American Expeditionary Forces. At one time during the German offensive of March, 1918. Colonel Cabot and his associates took in over 1200 patients in 24 hours, and had 3000 in the Hospital at that time...