Greater Indianapolis ;the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes . oftransformation which slowly but irresistiblyproceeded in all (ierman clubs of the country,was the meanwhile i-ipening youth. A newgeneration had matured. Grown up in othersurroundings it brought in a different thoughtand feeling. The revolutionary .spirit of 48which thrilled the fathers was strange andincompi-ehensible to the children. In the as-semblages and entertainments of the Germanclubs, English conveisation. which came somuch easier, attained precedence. The Ger-man club life recei
Greater Indianapolis ;the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes . oftransformation which slowly but irresistiblyproceeded in all (ierman clubs of the country,was the meanwhile i-ipening youth. A newgeneration had matured. Grown up in othersurroundings it brought in a different thoughtand feeling. The revolutionary .spirit of 48which thrilled the fathers was strange andincompi-ehensible to the children. In the as-semblages and entertainments of the Germanclubs, English conveisation. which came somuch easier, attained precedence. The Ger-man club life received a different process of Americanization also overtookour forty-eighters, for the events of the jiastwere too powerful to pass over them withoutleaving traces. The affectionate care for thefamily, the free intercourse and expressionof opinion, the business and the dollar, thesocial and material advantages which the newhome offered so profusely frightened awaythe homesickness, the uenfle longing for theold fatherland, to a hidden corner of the HISTORY OF (illKVlKi; I 213. D :- the war the Schulverein hadbought the ; lot. and doubled tliesize of the school tiuildinj;- 216 East ^laiv-land street). The school itself, under themanagement of Johann Reitz and his sonHeinrich Reitz (18t52-18().5) made excellent]iro^ress. It reached its bloom in the years1865 to 1871. Ry the care of the principala fine corps of teachers was secured, viz.:Th. Dinsledey
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