Aus Nah und Fern was a journal advertised in 1910 as “the only publication in existence for American students of German.” It was first published in 1910 by the Francis W. Parker School Press at 330 Webster Avenue, Chicago, and its last issue was dated Apr. 1919. Editor-in-chief: Arthur G. Merrill.
In November 1910, it was subtitled “Eine Zeitschrift für Schule und Haus besonders für Schüler auf unseren höheren Schulen”; it changed to “Eine internationale Zeitschrift für Schule und Haus, besonders für Schüler höherer Lehranstalten” by December 1916.
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The Nov. 1910 issue has cover art by Frank Hazenplug (later Hazen), Chicago.
Contents include “Brief aus Kalifornien,” by Adele Meyer, Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles. Adele Meyer was born in Pyrmont, Germany, Aug. 16, 1873, presumably while her parents were visiting her father’s relatives in Germany (her siblings Emma and Charles were born in the United States). She went to Sunday school in the Church of the Unity, a Unitarian church in St. Louis. Her mother moved the family to Coronado, Calif., around 1892, probably after her father died.
She received her A. B. in German at Stanford in 1907. When she moved to Los Angeles, she became part of the Unitarian church there, and was Superintendent of the Sunday school by 1909 (The Pacific Unitarian, vol. 18, no. 3, Nov., 1909).
After graduating from Stanford, she taught German at the Polytechnic High School in Los Angeles from 1908-1912. Adele went to study at Columbia around 1912. She married Irving Erastus Outcault on June 25, 1914; he was a Stanford graduate (1896). They settled in San Diego, and she was the first principal of the Francis Parker School in San Diego, from 1914-1920. She died Aug. 28, 1964.
Also in the Nov. 1910 issue: “Alt Heidelberg” by Friedrich A. Hamann, Milwaukee, Wis., South Division High School. Friedrich Hamann was an alumni of the University of Wisconsin in 1908; he lived at 1139 Eighth St. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was a teacher of German, a tenor singer, and photographer.
The December 1916 issue includes “Sommerferien [sic] in Amerika,” a letter written by H. W. Reese. Heinrich W. Reese was an instructor at the University of Ohio, Columbus, when this issue was printed. Along with Otto P. Schinnerer of Columbia University, he was co-director of Camp Waldheim, a summer boy’s camp in Vermont, that offered language instruction with native speakers.
For the January 1916 issue of Monatshefte (Madison, Wisconsin), Reece wrote a review critical of George Madison Priest’s Germany since 1740 (Ginn & Co., 1916). In January 1917, Monatshefte included a note for a mention of the book in another article: “So far as the presentation of our times is concerned, this book is to be used with great caution. See Dr. Reese’s review, January, 1916.”
Reese lost his position at the University of Ohio in 1917, due to the “alien enemy law.” He took a position with the Mackenzie School in Monroe, New York.
Also included is “Die Uhr im Strassburger Münster,” by Dr. Richard Lindner, Abendpost, Chicago; “Mühlenberg und die Deutschen in amerikanischen Freiheitskampf” (Fortsetzung), by Prof. Paul Grossmann (Simmons College, Boston); and “Gebräuchliche Ausdrücke und Vokabeln für Vereinssitzungen.”