Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country. Once Mr. Lansing was aroused from bed to digress on international law. It was held "unnecessary to disturb Mr. Bryan." In the tense crescendo of feeling which led to the War, Mr. Lansing succeeded Mr. Bryan, was shrewd, logical, firm. He squashed propaganda, refused to be gulled by German Ambassador von Bernstorff. Elihu Root remarked an improvement in state papers...
Since the establishment of the German Republic, major labor disputes have been settled summarily, expediently by arbitration courts. But last week such a court was insolently flouted, its decision scorned...
...symbol of a degree still count for more in the mind of the student than the petty wastes that may make it up. Since safety must remain a prime consideration when one seeks such ultimates it seems possible for Harvard to recognize that. a) The courses in French and German which fulfill the reading requirement are now taken by the majority for that purpose alone. b) The present mechanical nature of their value might be forfeitable altered by a reshaping of each course either to a rough reading outline of the nation's literature or to a reading survey...
...utilize this graphic method of instruction. The rapid come and go the obvious superficiality of familiar movie films have prejudiced faculties against them and it is with something of a start that one reads of their introduction into a Harvard class room. The reels to be projected by the German department are well chosen however in that they attempt what is preeminently fitted to this sort of presentation...
...planning to use the films merely to round out the material offered in a more formal manner Professor Burkhard has made a wise decision. The views of beautiful Germany will make more convincing the impassioned descriptions of Rhenish scenery which occur so frequently throughout Germanic literature and which by their very reiteration often arouse an incident skepticism in the un travelled student. Perhaps more difficult to grasp than the appearance of the country position of the student to interpret side of a nation is an understanding of the nature of its people. A language as difficult for the average American...