Word: mit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hail from a certain state in the Southwest. We do not wish to be foolishly skeptical, but seeing is believing, and until the warm winds of summer are with us we shall be anything but reassured. We had almost been persuaded to believe that the Teutonic assertion, "Gott mit uns," was well founded...
...February Illustrated, however does not fulfill the promise which it pledges in its remarkable cover. We turn to a poem by C. H. Jacobs '16, the author of the mooted "Gott Mit Uns." "The Chant of Love" is hardly worth the prominence it receives, and it is to be regretted that the Illustrated makes such an unsuccessful departure from its usual program, venturing into the realm of poetry for no other reason--apparently--than to beat the newspapers representing the sequel to "Gott Mit Uns." "The Chant of Love" may be a journalistic triumph, but it is a literary disaster...
...picking out the prize poem, acted without reference to creed or country. Their business was simply to determine the best poem among the ten or fifteen submitted, judged as a poem. Because it was a good sonnet, and not because it was anti-German or anti-anything, "Gott Mit Uns" received the prize. "Dieu Avec Nous," written with equal skill, would have received equal honor...
Yesterday a letter from Professor Kuno Meyer, of the University of Berlin, to President Lowell was made public. The letter concerned the recent Advocate prize poem, "Gott Mit Uns," and censored both Harvard and President Lowell for fostering a "spirit of unmitigated hostility toward Germany. Professor Meyer characterizes the poem as "damnable," and states that Harvard has "silently connived at its wide circulation in the press." Harvard has "wantonly and wickedly gone out of its way to carry strife into the hallowed peace of the academic world," while the University and its President "stand branded before the world and posterity...
...expected--as individuals--to be otherwise than partisan. When the leader of a nation at war says "God is on our side," thereby implying that He is not on anyone else's he at least courts satirical comment from those individuals who believe in an impartial Diety. "Gott Mit Uns" is the expression of one man's opinion, honored with a prize because it is well put together, and not because it takes issue with Professor Meyer's people. It is not a Harvard prize poem, and it makes no claim to crystallize the thought of Harvard...