Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meeting. Heads of German, French, British and Belgian chemical industries agreed last week at a conference in Paris to consolidate their companies to form a "billion-dollar European chemical trust...
Reason. European (and especially German) chemical exports have dwindled to an almost negligible figure since the War. In recent years they have recovered some of their old prestige. However, U. S. producers last year exported chemicals worth $171,000,000. The combine move is a vigorous effort by Europe to strengthen its position in the chemical industry...
...unite against this combine threatening their peace and their prosperity. . . . Don't make the mistake of thinking this is a dye fight, or a nitrate fight, or a rayon fight or a fight for European or Asiatic markets. No, it is a fight to reassert European, in reality German (the French and English have been duped) supremacy in chemistry and chemical progress and that means German military supremacy. . . . America will never join such a combine. . . . Enlightened American industry, enlightened American opinion and enlightened American legislation will not allow our betrayal...
...Wars of Liberation and the Founding of the German Confederation," Professor Langer, Harvard...
Professor Clark's statement of the general educational ideas of President Mason of Chicago, and his comment upon the recent and more established innovations at Harvard only confirm the general belief that there is a tendency in American education which is rapidly changing into a purpose. Modelled after the German universities, American colleges are breaking from the mould--tending not to an imitation of the English or any other type, but borrowing what seems good and inventing what seems better. The present generation of undergraduates is, so to speak serving as a test case in many laboratories; that the experimenters...