Word: munich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miles south of Munich, high in the mountains, is the Walschensee- a lake. In 1918, the Bavarian Government decided to turn its vast water supply to the manufacture of power. Construction of a colossal plant began and is now nearing completion. This giant waterpower project will be the largest in Europe and is designed to operate all the Bavarian State railways by electricity and to supply vast units of power for private enterprise. So great will be the power available from the plant that some of it is expected to find its way to Austria and Württemberg...
...distance. . . . The Rhine maidens, buxom Bavarian lasses all, were swung, as Wagner directed, by wires attached to the stage-ceiling through the blue-green gauze "waters" of the river. Except for the fact that very few stellar singers could be mustered (most of them having been engaged for the Munich Wagner-season, which opened August 1), the Festival was reported as an unqualified artistic success. The huge choruses, particularly, showed the results of thorough Teutonic drill. The Bayreuth coffers are already well filled, and Wagner-festivals will probably be continued, indefinitely...
...number of women students (summer term) increased from 4,057 to 8,761 (for 1923). Leading German university enrollments: Berlin (founded 1809), 12,522; Cologne (founded 1388), 5,270; Frankfurt-am-Main (founded 1914), 5,032; Hamburg (founded 1919), 4,571; Munich (founded...
...Munich has been the scene of a bitter engagement between those age-old foes-Radicals and Conservatives. The Minister of Education took advantage of a recent law (retiring government officials about the age of 65) to oust six conservative professors from the Academy, including the Director, Karl von Marr, American-born. Said Professor von Marr: "These ultra-Modernists are mentally afflicted. They are sick in their heads, and the more I see of their work, the more I become convinced of the fact. Most of them are incapable of learning the simple mechanics of drawing, so they splash their canvases...
...scholar in music who will sail this Summer. This is a blow to native pride. But hundred percenters may point out that our young musicians may receive just as good-or better-training by patronizing American teachers, than by journeying across the Atlantic and squandering $1,500 in Paris, Munich or Vienna...