Word: germanizing
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...freshmen have offered to give an exhibition of German duelling at one of the winter meetings. In this form of duelling no mask is worn, and the point is to gash the face, and not to make thrusts at the body...
Historical Concert. Professor Paine assisted by Soloists. Sever 11, 7.45 P. M. Tickets at Sever's. ***Church music of Flemish and Italian masters of the 15th and 16th centuries, illustrated from Josquin, Lasso, and Palestrina; Songs of the Troubadours; early English and German popular airs; and English madrigals of the 16th century, illustrated from Dowland, Morley...
...brought about by the introduction of a classical optional in the admission requirements at Harvard, the opponents of the change have, almost invariably, cited the educational systems of England and Germany in support of their argument. They bring up the fact that in the English preparatory schools and the German gymnasia classical instruction goes much farther than it does in similar institutions in this country. They claim that until a student attains the English or German standard, a classical education should be prescribed for him. In view of this claim the fact acquires interest that there is a considerable movement...
...this manifest injustice. There are some men who have been called upon but once this year, a circumstance well calculated to kill all proficiency in the subject. It is wholly essential that as many men as possible should be given an opportunity to pronounce the difficult words for which German is noted. As it is, many men are literally afraid of their own voices, into such long disuse have they come...
...said that the German students are not successful as oarsmen, on account of their inability to abstain from the use of tobacco and beer...