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...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...
...Schwarze Korps recalled such German friends of the U.S. as Baron Frederick William Augustus Henry Ferdinand yon Steuben, who assisted in the Revolution as a topnotch troop-trainer (but who, the paper neglected to mention, had been persuaded to help the U. S. by a Frenchman); and General Carl Schurz, a pillar of the Republican Party in Lincoln's years (who incidentally had been exiled from Germany...
First U. S. kindergarten was started in 1856 in Watertown, Wis. by Mrs. Carl Schurz, wife of the famed Thuringian revolutionary who became Lincoln's Minister to Spain, Hayes's Secretary of the Interior and the first German-born citizen to sit in the U. S. Senate.* Under such auspices the kindergarten soon attracted philanthropists. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, mother of William Randolph, opened one for the children in her husband's mining community at Lead, S. Dak. and financed the Parent-Teachers' Association mainly to promote the kindergarten movement...