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...democratic element is not totally eliminated only because of a remarkable development of student selfhelp. Guided from a national headquarters at Dresden, cooperative stores, student kitchens, employment bureaus are operated. And there are loan banks to which all who can contribute, and from which the most gifted students, regardless of social status, receive money without interest during the months before their final exams. John R. Mott, through the World's Student Christian Federation, has been largely instrumental in the success of these self-help activities. The Society of Friends (American Quakers) have cooperated...
...scales even, is moving further and further from France. But the future of Germany is not being determined by Downing Street or by the Quai d'Orsay, or even by the Wilhelmstrasse, which seems largely powerless in the force of events; it is being determined by Munich and Dresden and the cities in the Ruhr and the Rhineland...
...only one bubble in the pot has come to the surface the Kapp Pusch of 1920. This bubble was soon burst. In the alchemy of internal turmoil, the characteristics of Prussia have changed places with those of Bavaria and Saxony. Berlin beams with sunny cordiality, while Munich and Dresden are lowering with political ferment...
Balkan brigands are improving on the methods of the innkeepers of Oberammergan, shopkeepers of Berlin and Dresden, and restaurant keepers of Paris in the business of quick and complete annexation of American bankrolls which come within their reach. A cablegram tolls of the holdup and robbery of a party of Illinois tourists at a lonely spot in the Balkans...
...Eddy said in connection with means of securing a closer touch between the students of Europe and America: "Last year a group of students from American colleges met a body of 30 students from the South of Germany and another body of 30 from the North of Germany in Dresden, and there discussed with them some of the fundamental questions that are facing both continents today. The conference had so powerful an influence on German student life that appeals have come from the universities of Germany for more deputations to come from the United States and England as well...