Word: baden
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...wagon, and then a stag. Falconers ride by with hooded birds perched upon their wrists; and sturdy huntsmen follow with eager hounds in leash. Through all our vicisitudes, we have now come to the dawn of the nineteenth century, and hereafter prosperity reigns supreme. Carl Frederick of Baden, the restorer of the university, goes by amid huzzas from a joyful people and the peals of music. A grand jubilee car with two maidens in white, representing the two genuises of the Schola Ruperto Carola, gay modern banners, modern dresses and corps of modern students - and the vision is gone...
...bustle of anxious preparation. There was erected on the banks of the Neckar an enormous Jubilee Building, in which 7,000 people could be seated. Every house was decorated with bunting and evergreen, and from every house-top floated the twin yellow and red of the Duchy of Baden. From all points of the compass long railroad trains came pouring in; all the hotels were filled; the streets were thronged; every face was aglow with enthusiasm...
...celebration began at eight o'clock Monday evening, August 2, with a reception, by the municipal authorities, of the distinguished visitors, among whom were the Crown Prince of Germany and the Grand Duke of Baden. The exercises were brief, consisting mostly of music by the band and the singing of a hymn written especially for the occasion by the late lamented Scheffel...
...political flavor, referring not only to the university's glorious history, but to the especially important part which she had played in fostering a spirit of national unity and thus rendering possible the present imperial government, "which is now Germany's safeguard and strength." The Grand Duke of Baden, who is Rector Magnificentisimus of the university, welcomed the guests present; and in behalf of the university returned loyal thanks to the Emperor for his kind patronage of the celebration, and to the Pope, who honored the occasion by several valuable gifts to the scientific department. In the evening the alumni...
...years the university of Zurich has received women on equal terms with man. There are at present in the university thirty-one female students (twenty in medicine, ten in philosophy, and one in chemistry), distributed as follows: seven from Germany, two each from Baden and Schiswig, and one each from Bavaria, East Prussia and Sondershausen. Thirty women have received the Doctor's degree-twenty-three in medicine and seven in philosophy...