Word: germanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard makes its six-week contribution to the world wide Goethe Bicentennial beginning tonight with a lecture by Stuart P. Atkins, assistant professor of German Literature, on "Goethe and World Literature" at 8 p.m. in the Fogg Large Room...
Almost a full year of preparation has gone into the local celebration of the German poet's birth. The German Department's bow to Goethe is one of the last in a succession of praise and reminiscence all over the world during the past year...
Goethe mementoes on display here constitute the best collection of the German writer's possessions now in the western hemisphere...
...unsportsmanlike plot, involving a low trick on fish, is being cooked up by Dr. Konrad Kreutzer, a well-known German physicist. According to an official report last week in the U.S. Department of Commerce's Foreign Commerce Weekly, Dr. Kreutzer put two electrodes in the water of Lake Constance, passed a current between them, and observed (as had been observed before) that fish in such a spot tend to head toward the positive electrode. He also observed that an increase in the current made their tails wiggle. This gave him his big idea. When a fish's tail...
...window, smashed by a German bomb in 1941, was placed in the chapel where John Harvard was baptized...