Word: germane
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...twenty-fifth anniversary by the performance of the most exacting play that it has yet undertaken in its ten years of theatrical experience. "Der Neffe als Onkel" and "Einer muss Heiraten," of previous years were only slender trifles and a little too suggestive of "required reading" in elementary German. "Der Herr Senator" and "Der Raub der Saberinnen" mounted higher in the theatrical scale and were freer from the hint of the class-room. Both, however, in difficulty of performance and in interest to a general audience, fell far below "Alt Heidelberg," the play that the society acted in Jordan Hall...
More nearly than any other German play, unless it is Sudermann's "Heimath," of our immediate time, "Alt Heidelberg" is a universal, almost a classic piece. Even mistrustful Paris has seen it gladly, while American audiences long since warmed to its sentiment and its humor. German it is at every turn; in its satire of the petty routine and stiff-backed etiquette of the modern Pumper-nickel that Meyer-Foerster calls Sachsen-Karlsburg; in its glimpses of the life of the students at Heidelberg; and, above all, in its two sentimentalists--the old tutor, Juettner, dreaming over the university...
...their regular meeting on April 13, the Board of Overseers confirmed the following appointments: R. DeC. Ward '89, A.M., professor of climatology; J. A. Walz, A.M., Ph.D., professor of the German language and literature; L. C. Graton, assistant professor of mining geology; E. V. Huntington '95, A.M., Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics; C. N. Jackson '98, A.M., Ph.D., assistant professor of Greek and Latin; I. W. Bailey '07, M.F., instructor in forestry; B. H. Cooper, D.M.D., instructor in operative dentistry...
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