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...Although Oxford and Cambridge cling to the old rule by the Fellows, a plan similar to the American idea is in execution in all the modern English and Scotch universities, where leading citizens of the college towns are powers in the University Court, as the governing bodies are called. Because of this sense of authority in the part of the townspeople they take a greater interest in the college than they would otherwise be and the College becomes a real part of the life of the town...
...Cling to Old Flag...
...these German students of today, while they still wear the colors that have been adopted as the official flag of Germany, cling politically to the old black-white-red of the Empire. They are mainly haters of Socialists, pacifists, and all internationalists; patriots and "reactionaries." At the annual students' congress held in Berlin in August of the present year, the republican students formed only a trifling majority...
...will also liberate the masterful temples of Christian Rome from the profane parasitical constructions which now cling to them. Thousands of monuments of our history must stand out in their giantlike solitude. Then Rome will spread out above other hills along the banks of the sacred river even to the shores of the Mediterranean...
Popular conceptions are so seldom right that the probabilities are all in Mr. Faulkner's favor. Yet people will probably cling to their picturesque illusions all the more because they have small foundation. Where could one find a horrible example of religious bigotry to cartoon if New England refuses the role? what becomes of the ancestry societies if one's ancestor was a bond servant on a rundown tobacco farm? The public will see to it that these iconoclastic assertions are still-born; it would never do to see the United States join hands with Australia as a place whose...