Word: gruendlichkeit
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Dates: during 1914-1914
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...Harvard is now open. What will it teach? For fifty years our American professors and students have been in ardent pursuit of German ideals of scholarship; they have tortured themselves to attain German thoroughness, Gruendlichkeit; they have taken all the arts and sciences and done them over in the likeness of a German image. We have profited by this, for it has checked our native love for the hasty and impermanent ways of the pioneer...
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