2009, ISBN: 9781443225151

General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1913Original Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons Subjects: National characteristics, GermanGermanyUnited StatesHistory / Europe / … More...

General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1913Original Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons Subjects: National characteristics, GermanGermanyUnited StatesHistory / Europe / GermanyHistory / Military / World War IISocial Science / Ethnic Studies / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1913Original Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons Subjects: National characteristics, GermanGermanyUnited StatesHistory / Europe / GermanyHistory / Military / World War IISocial Science / Ethnic Studies / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Ill THE INDISCREET THE casual observer of life in England would find himself forced to write of sport, even as in India he would write of caste, as in America he would note the undue emphasis laid upon politics. In Germany, wherever he turns, whether it be to look at the army, to inquire about the navy, to study the constitution, or to disentangle the web of present-day political strife; to read the figures of commercial and industrial progress, or the results of social legislation; to look on at the Germans at play during their yachting week at Kiel, or their rowing contests at Frankfort, he finds himself face to face with the Emperor. The student visits Berlin, or Potsdam, or Wilhelmshohe; or with a long stride finds himself on the docks at Hamburg or Bremen, or beside the Kiel Canal, or in Kiel harbor facing a fleet of war-ships; or he lifts his eyes into the air to see a dirigible balloon returning from a voyage of two hundred and fifty miles towardLondon over the North Sea, and the Emperor is there. Is it the palace hidden in its shrubbery in the country; is it the clean, broad streets and decorations of the capital; is it a discussion of domestic politics, or a question of foreign politics, the Emperor's hand is there. His opinion, his influence, what he has said or has not said, are inextricably interwoven with the woof and web of German life. We may Books, History~~General, Germany-and-the-Germans-from-an-American-Point-of-View~~Price-Collier, 999999999, Germany And The Germans From An American Point Of View, Price Collier, 1443225150, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781443225151

General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1913Original Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons Subjects: National characteristics, GermanGermanyUnited StatesHistory / Europe / … More...

General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1913Original Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons Subjects: National characteristics, GermanGermanyUnited StatesHistory / Europe / GermanyHistory / Military / World War IISocial Science / Ethnic Studies / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Ill THE INDISCREET THE casual observer of life in England would find himself forced to write of sport, even as in India he would write of caste, as in America he would note the undue emphasis laid upon politics. In Germany, wherever he turns, whether it be to look at the army, to inquire about the navy, to study the constitution, or to disentangle the web of present-day political strife; to read the figures of commercial and industrial progress, or the results of social legislation; to look on at the Germans at play during their yachting week at Kiel, or their rowing contests at Frankfort, he finds himself face to face with the Emperor. The student visits Berlin, or Potsdam, or Wilhelmshohe; or with a long stride finds himself on the docks at Hamburg or Bremen, or beside the Kiel Canal, or in Kiel harbor facing a fleet of war-ships; or he lifts his eyes into the air to see a dirigible balloon returning from a voyage of two hundred and fifty miles towardLondon over the North Sea, and the Emperor is there. Is it the palace hidden in its shrubbery in the country; is it the clean, broad streets and decorations of the capital; is it a discussion of domestic politics, or a question of foreign politics, the Emperor's hand is there. His opinion, his influence, what he has said or has not said, are inextricably interwoven with the woof and web of German life. We may Books History~~General Germany-and-the-Germans-from-an-American-Point-of-View~~Price-Collier General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781443225151

Excerpt: ...School begins at seven in summer, at eight in winter. The course for those intending to go to the university is nine years; the recitation hours alone range from twenty-five t… More...

Excerpt: ...School begins at seven in summer, at eight in winter. The course for those intending to go to the university is nine years; the recitation hours alone range from twenty-five to thirty-two hours a week; to which must be added two hours a week of singing and three hours a week of gymnastics, and this for forty-two weeks in the year. The preparation for class-work requires from two and a half to four hours more. It foots up to something like fifty hours a week! At Eton, in England, the boys grumble because they only have a half-holiday every other day, and four months of the year vacation. It will be interesting to see which educational method is to produce the men who are to win the next Waterloo. No wonder that nearly seventy per cent. of those who reach the standard required of those who need serve only one year instead of three in the army are near-sighted, and that more than forty-five per cent. are put on one side as physically unfit. The increase in population in Germany is so great, however, and the candidates for the army so numerous, that the authorities are far more strict in those they accept than in France, for example. There is more manhood material for the German army and navy every year than is needed. In the first year of the nine-years Price Collier, Books, History, Germany And The Germans From An American Point Of View Books>History <