Word: prussianize
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...Hindenburg was offered the historic golden goblet of Stuttgard, a tankard fit for Thor,* brimming with native Suabian wine. Dismayed, he cried, "I certainly can't empty that!" None the less he tippled good-humoredly and downed a stiff Prussian toast...
Last year the city of Copenhagen paid a graceful compliment to the Gothic intellect by holding a memorial exhibit of reliques, papers, letters, reminiscent of the life of Wolfgang Goethe. To reciprocate, the Prussian State Library recently opened a similar exhibit for a Scandinavian genius, Hans Christian Andersen. First editions of his books, illustrations for his earliest fairy tales, letters from Hugo, Heine, Balzac, Lamartine, De Vigny, the Grimm brothers and the Grand Duke of Weimar, ladies' favors, gentlemen's favors, and the souvenirs of princes, are shown there, and the German schoolchildren who went to gaze...
Without any ceremony, so the papers have it, the dean dispatched a note to Stephenson informing him that he was suspended for his article which was deemed "prejudicial to good discipline." Certainly a Prussian conception of discipline, one would say. And so Stephenson's fellow students evidently thought, for they presented a petition for the reconsideration of the summary sentence passed upon him. They also secured from other college papers, the CRIMSON among others, copies of editorials wherein student editors opposed their college administration, hoping to convince Dean Troxell that Stephenson's act was as nothing compared to similar instances...
...letter received from Wilhelm von Bode, Director-General of the Prussian State Museum, is mentioned a highly commendatory article on Harvard's German Museum, published recently in "Der Kunstwanderer." The key note of the article is regret that such a museum of casts of German sculpture should not exist in Berlin...
...this letter Wilhelm von Bode, director-general emeritus of the Prussian State Museums, mentions a highly commendatory article on the Germanic Museum of the University, published in the September number of "Der Kunstwanderer." The key note of the article is regret that such a museum of casts of German sculpture should not exist in Berlin...