Word: schurz
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Unawarded this year were the Francis Boott Prize, the Circolo Italiano Prize, the John A. Walz, Jr. Prize, the Carl Schurz Prize, and the Susan Anthony Potter Prize in Spanish Literature...
...started largely through the enthusiasm of Kuno Francke, professor of German and the Museum's first curator, as a place for exhibits of specimens of Germanic art "from the first contact of Germanic tribes with the civilization of the Roman empire to the present day." Carl Schurz spoke at the opening in 1903, and Kaiser Wilhelm donated a considerable part of the original collection...
...Prize for dissertation by an undergraduate; Edwin J. Jacob '47-1, Detroit, and Carl O. Tolf, Jr., Naval ROTC, Park Ridge, Ill., Coolidge Debating Prizes of $100 each. Jack M. Fein '45, East Chicago, Ind., $75 Susan A. Potter Prize in Spanish Literature. Caldwell Titcomb '47, Augusta, Me., Carl Schurz Prize for excellence in German. Peter Flanders '47, Elizabeth Wilder Prize for excellence in German...
...Carl Schurz is proof that a man of German descent can be a damned good American, even by American standards," Peter Viereck '37, son of a Nazi agent, contended in an interview yesterday. Viereck was completely sincere in this statement for his latest book "Metapolitics" disproves any ideological connection he might have with his very Nazi father, George Sylvester Viereck, chief German Propaganda Agent in this country, now on trial in Washington...
...line with his views on totalitarian issues, Viereck holds a certain reverence for the great figures in American history, past and present. Carl Schurz, a German immigrant who rose to become Secretary of State under President Hayes, is his particular idol. Viereck's book is dedicated to Schurz, as proof that the same German type that is misled in Europe can become an integral part of the American national pattern if the emotional environs of the old country are removed...