Excerpt from The Eighth Meeting of the Commission of Fine Arts During the Fiscal Year 1912 In.compliance with the request of the secretary of war, the Commission of Fine Arts has inspected fife models now 611 view in the War Department which were submitted to the Commission for the German.memorial to be erected at germantowng Pennsylvania, and has given careful consideration to the views expressed.by Dr, Hexamer, President of the Rational german-american alliance who appeared before the commission, The Commission is of the opinion.that no one of the designs is acceptable as it now stands, but, taking into consideration the point of view expressed by Dr. Hexamer, the Commission.of Fine Arts recommends that nr. Schweitzer and hr. Jaegers, who submitted two of the models, be requested to restudy their designs and to submit new models in.compjptition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.