• Collection: Education
GermanLanguageInstructionDuringWWI.JPG

Article from Cornell College on German language learning in wartime. Keyes notes that there has never been more interest.
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Davis says intransigent church got in touch with him, gave a "plea for mercy [and] I told them there was no help for them." They stopped German-language instruction from there.
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Publisher writes against German parochial schools and the teaching of German in general, as Germany proper immediately Germanizes any territory it conquers.
257205-997118 - Hovden Teeya - May 3, 2016 124 PM - HovdenT_J.J.BillingslytoH.J.Metcalf_Metcalf2.jpg

Letter from J. J. Billingsly to H. J. Metcalf giving a list of names of the presidents of the school in Primghar, Iowa in case H. J. Metcalf didn

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184899-997118 - Nelson Kaitlyn - May 4, 2016 256 PM - NelsonK_J. J. Billingely to Herbert J. Metcalf, Jan. 16, 1918_Metcalf.jpg

Letter to Metcalf in regards to the teaching of German in public schools. Mr. Billingely provided Metcalf names of presidents of the school boards with the O
184899-997118 - Nelson Kaitlyn - May 12, 2016 703 PM - NelsonK_J. Leo Bush to National Defense Committee, Jan. 16, 1918_Metcalf.jpg

This letter to the National Defense Committee is informing them that they wish to stop studying German. Even though they have been studying it for a year and a half they are wondering if they can study a different language instead.
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Surveying Bremer County's language situation on eve of Babel
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Bremer Council of Defense secretary on Babel's reception in Bremer. Talk of meeting with German professor of seminary.
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More detailed rehash to Metcalf of Lauer's letter to Harding.
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