Word: carola
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...escorted by the noble ladies and gentlemen of the court, among whom the court fool, mounted on a frisky ass, plunges recklessly about. A group of students and professors are followed by a huge car, a sort of exalted chariot, on which sit five beautiful young girls, representing Ruperto Carola, Piety, Wisdom, Justice, Truth. This ends the first division of the procession. The next epoch begins with the triumphal entry of Frederick I, named the Victorious, after the battle of Seckenheim, 1462. The war-scarred veterans, with torn ensigns and shattered spears and battered armor, but with proud, triumphant faces...
...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, and we are standing in the Heidelberg of to-day, cheering with the excited populace. The procession has taken a half hour to pass and is considerably over a mile long. The horses have been...