In 1917 and 1918, while Buchholz lived in Gainesville, anti-German sentiment existed in the United States and in Florida schools. His father, then on the faculty of the University of Florida in Gainesville as a Professor of Education and School Management (specializing in Biblical instruction), was accused of disloyalty during the Great War (World War I). An "F.W. Bughholz" (with an A.B., Bachelor of Arts degree) is listed as a professor of Latin at the University of Florida for the summer session of 1917, likely a misspelling of "Buchholz." This indicates his studies at Oxford did not result in a master's degree.