Word: hermannsburg
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Died. Dr. Kurt Hahn, 88, stern, idealistic German educator for whom moral and physical fitness were as important as academic prowess; in Hermannsburg, West Germany. Hahn's pedagogical plan called for cold showers, periods of silence, and exacting physical trials to harden bodies and toughen minds in the struggle for survival during perilous times. Hahn founded his first school in 1920 at Germany's Salem Castle. When the Nazis forced him to flee 13 years later, he went to the bleak northeast coast of Scotland and started the Gordonstoun School, where Britain's Princes Philip, Charles...