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Summer house of the Head of the German Department at the University of Washington, Seattle. At the height of Anti-German sentiment during the onset of W.W. I, (June 25, 1917), Meisnest made a lecture, "Germany is Faust, not Hamlet," praising the cultural advances made in Germany during the previous 50 years under Bismarck and Junker political leadership. Meisnest's benign, yet ill-timed remarks cost him his job in 1917, as he became a lightning rod of criticism at the University of Washington. The professor, once the Head of the German Department, regained a UW position only in 1926-1927, this time at the lowly Lecturer rank. He concluded at the UW as a full Professor Emeritus, however.

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