Word: kulturized
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...should at some time break through its respectable restraints and take its arrogant way of blood and fire. It chose the hour when it thought the milder manner had served its purpose. Nothing was made clearer by the propaganda conducted in this country than the belief of Potsdam that "kultur" had conquered in America and had paved the way for unhindered violence...
...personal observations as to what Germany wants are quite different from those of Mr. Henderson. My impression, gathered from contact with German officials has been that Germany has long been spoiling for a war wherein she might wrest the control of the seas from England and impose her "Kultur" upon the rest of the world, including the United States. I have found educated Germans speaking with the greatest levity of making war, and I was told by a German official, upon one occasion, that Germany had determined to go down through the Balkans to the Aegean, and when I ventured...
...auspices of the Socialist Club last evening. "Organized socialism has temporarily failed, the speaker admitted, but organized socialism is very young. Primarily and finally the socialists are against war; yet many of the German socialists justify their present attitude towards the European war by saying that the German "kultur" must be preserved even if war is necessary...
...question is this: are we willing that drinking shall be set up--as it surely will be by the outside world, if continued,--be a Harvard ideal. Are we willing to express such an influence? For temptation is largely a matter of emulation. Are we not drifting into Tuetonic "kultur," and into "basest hedonism"--as expounded by Harold E. Stearns of Boston American fame? LLOYD REILLY...
...real apology for the "Kultur" of Germany lies, not in her military operations, but, perhaps more than anything else, in what she has done in her secondary schools, according to Dr. William Setchel Learned's work on the "Oberlehrer." Written before the outbreak of the war, it is the first account in English of the position of the secondary school-teacher. This book gives an excellent idea of the patient work and the high ideals of this generally over-looked part of German educational machinery...