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Referring to a widely publicized poem by an undergraduate satirizing Germany's slogan "Gott Mit Uns", he wrote that President Lowell and the University "stand branded before the world and posterity as abettors of international animosity, and traitors to the sacred cause of humanity...
Mozart's Symphony No. 35 in D major: Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater," presented with the Simmons College Glee Club and with Janie Steinseld '43, alto, and Hedwig Miehle '41, soprano, as soloists; Bach's "Wir Glauben all' an einem Gott" arranged and conducted by Ellis Kohs 1G; the Purcell Dance Suite with solo flute, Gabriel Jackson '42; and Beethoven's Overture to Prometheus comprise the program...
Sometimes known as the "Giant Fugue," the choral prelude, "Wir Glauben all' an einem Gott," was transcribed for orchestra in 1936 by Kohs, and has since then been played a number of times by the University of Chicago Orchestra, the New York Civic Orchestra under Edgar Schenkman, and the Illinois Symphony Orchestra...
...Experience has taught us that Latin peoples, yes, even the peoples of distant Japan, are incomparably closer to us in their attitude toward life and philosophy than our 'Germanic cousins' on the British Isles." But while Germany gained a theory it lost a favorite old slogan: "Gott strafe England!" The argument: "If God, on whom the Germans called in vain 25 years ago was really capable of exercising such a measure of punitive power, He would not have waited till 1940 to punish the British," stated the paper. "In those days the Germans relied too much...
...have attributed this language to me without the slightest warrant and, by placing it under the heading, "Gott Sei Mit Uns," by contrasting it with the contrary sentiments of "the vast majority of U. S. churchmen" and by various other devices and innuendoes you have created the impression not only that I am urging that this country become involved in war, that I am invoking the aid of the Deity to affect its outcome, but furthermore, that I seek publicity by startling and sensational means, all of which are utterly false, malicious and libelous...