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...Clement Wenceslaus. Only a few years ago, tourists in Bad Bertrich seemed to be just about as dead as Clement: the bath houses were in disrepair, the castle was falling apart, and mighty few American or even British gall bladders were in evidence. Then, a new administrative director named Wilhelm Hammer set out to find a good reason for a music festival...
Back in turn-of-the century days, when the Germanic Museum was first planned, German-American relations were at a peak. Gifts from Kaiser Wilhelm II and other Germans were warmly received by Harvard officials. Adolphus Busch, St. Louis beer magnate and the museum's chief financial benefactor, could comfortably proclaim, at an elaborate 1912 cornerstone ceremony, the on vocation, "Forever live the good entente between Germany and the United States." Five years later, just as major work on the museum was completed, America entered World...
Lodged in the upper floors of the museum building are the University's Speech and Germanic Language Departments, while the basement contains some of the WGBH studios along with surplus art objects. Among these latter, a number of nationalistic statue replicas given by Wilhelm II will share the fate of their donor's portrait and never see the light of the first floor. The presence of such exhibits would embarrass the museum staff, but only through an act of the Harvard Corporation could they be disposed of legally...
...Years. Almost overnight, the Swiss patent clerk became the world's most famous scientist. Universities competed for him, and in 1912 he became a professor at the famed Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin. In 1915 Einstein expanded his theory into the General Theory of Relativity...
...faculty members. At first, the seminary's four denominations squabbled, but in 1953 the F.T.F. board took a deep breath, decided to get a unified curriculum and a permanent dean to be undisputed boss. After almost two years of rumors, feelers, overtures and turndowns (during which top Theologians Wilhelm Pauck and Daniel Williams left to join the competition at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary), F.T.F. settled on its own Jerry Brauer. Says Dr. John Rylaarsdam, chairman of the committee that picked him: "He is a capable young scholar who furnishes as a Lutheran a real symbol...