Word: germane
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...education, professional courtesies, literature, and art. Professor Hugo Muensterberg, who is exchange professor at the University of Berlin for the current academic year, is the inventor and promoter of the enterprise and is serving as the first director of the "Institut." It has been endowed for $20,000 by German-American bankers and other persons who are interested in the advance of social and educational co-operation between the citizens of the two countries...
...most important functions of the institute will be the exchange of documents and scholarly literature through the agency of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and probably also the protection of the American copyright for German books. A large library for the study of historic, economic and social problems of America will be connected with the bureau...
...services of the staff will be at the disposal of the American institutions, scholars, and students, and particular emphasis will be laid on the effort to bring American men of science and research into convenient contact with German universities, bureaus, archives, museums, libraries, laboratories and hospitals...
...American books will be translated and circulated in Germany and German books in America. Participation in international exhibitions and congresses expeditions and artistic, economic and scientific enterprises will be simplified and furthered. In short, the institute will try to be useful in all departments of cultural life...
Students who entered Harvard College with the class of 1914 must pass, before they can be admitted to the Junior class, a special oral examination to test their reading knowledge of either French or German. Any member of the class of 1914 who has not already passed this oral examination and wishes to take it during the mid-year period must notify the Recorder, University 4, in writing, before next Thursday. Each candidate will then be notified when and where to present himself for the oral examination...