• Collection: Education
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Pre-Babel concerns regarding use of German and German-language schools, from Assistant Attorney General.
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Suspicions over German-American loyalties, pre-Babel.
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Note from local lawyer on German-language issue in Waukon Public Schools.
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Short return note to Harding, noting elmination of classes from Waukon Public Schools.
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Long-winded question regarding whether students may take final exam in German, as they began studies before Proclamation.

This letter is about instituting military ciriculum within schools so that the boys are better prepared to go to military training and example used is working the telegraph.
Timmerman, LaubeEpisodes.pdf

The eulogy includes three "episodes" on the life of Dr. Paul Laube, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Dubuque, Iowa and faculty member at the University of Dubuque. The eulogy describes Dr. Laube's Christian character, his sentiments…
Timmerman, 1919 Letter to Cornelius Steffens.pdf

According to an archival note from the University of Dubuque, this document was probably written by William O. Ruston, who was the president of the school from 1904-1908, about the circulation of the Dubuque Evangelist. William Ruston discusses two…
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