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An unexpected increase in enrollment has occurred in the Romance, Slavic, and Germanic language departments this year, Harry T. Levin '33, Director of the Modern Language Center, reported yesterday. "The increase is part of a national trend," and provides evidence of a "general educational self-searching," he said.
Figures reveal not only that enrollment in Slavic courses jumped from 51 last year to 197, but that Romance languages increased from 1375 to 1477, and Germanic course enrollments rose from 478 to 561.
Open-Eyed Dreams. Born in bilingual Strasbourg in 1887, Arp grew up at the watershed point between Germanic and French culture, has managed to make the best of both possible worlds ever since. As Hans Arp he attended the Weimar Art School, came to know Wassily Kandinsky and the proto...
At the Busch-Reisinger Museum of Germanic Culture Feininger is a German painter. At the Whitney Museum of American Art he is an American painter. The ambiguity, which is more than geographical, does him credit. It bespeaks the potencies of the individual.
The fact that people who have a vivid memory of the horrors of World War II are able to laugh heartily and without uneasiness at this character is a curious phenomenon. If he were obviously a caracature, an unbelievable reductio ad absurdum of certain germanic traits, it would be easier...