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...unhappy, Dale made few friends, immersed himself in the study of difficult languages-Assyrian, Catalan, Hungarian. For relaxation, he joined the Verein Turmwächter (Harvard's German Club), became its treasurer. With fellow club members, he spoke German, drank beer, sang German songs, heard German speakers, discussed German culture. For all their Germanic carousing, his companions remained good democrats. But they soon began to discern in Dale Maple a growing admiration for Adolf Hitler, and for Nazi "efficiency." Dale took perverse pleasure in shocking his associates by singing the Horst Wessel song and Deutschland Uber Alles. When pink...
Last week Dale Maple shocked arch-patriotic Harvard by resigning from the Verein Turmwächter and publicly applauding Hitler and all his works. To the Harvard Crimson's editors, who could scarcely believe their ears, he defiantly exclaimed: "Even a bad dictatorship is better than a good democracy." To educators, Dale Maple's case proved little about Harvard, much about the psychology of frustration...
Fraulein Margarete Neff, former leading lady of the National Theatre Company of Welmar, will give readings from German literature in the Germanic Museum tomorrow night at 8:15 o'clock, it was announced yesterday by the Verein Turmwaechter. The performance to open free to all members of the University...
Interest clubs include the Circolo Italiano, German Club (Verein Turmwaochter), Cercle Francais, and Slavie Circle; the Pistol and Rifle clubs, which practice in the basement of Memorial Hall; and the Flying Club and Mountaineering Club...
Austria was the subject of an address last night to the Verein Turmwachter by Kurz Herzfeld, Austrian refugee...