Word: ghent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...want a Flemish university.'' For a century that cry has been in the hearts of the Flemish, 3,000,000 of them, three-sevenths of the popution of Belgium. By recent vote of the Belgian Parliament, the Flemish language will replace French at the University of Ghent, and the 3,000,000 rejoice in their emancipation from the tyranny of a foreign language...
...Belgian state (1830), drove the language from power. Says a correspondent of The New York Times: " Political leaders have feared that popular intellectual development would make the Flemish less docile, but now, partly as a result of the war, they have been forced to restore the University of Ghent to its cultural heirs. The Flemish have their university at last...
Professor Henrl Pirenne, rector of the University of Ghent, delivered yesterday afternoon the last of his series of lectures on "The Origin of Cities in Western Europe". He continued his account of the use of the walled towns by explaining the part played by the "bourgeois" class in the city life...
Professor Pirenne compared the background which made possible the rise of the merchant class with the situation leading to the growth of enormous fortunes "in Europe" during the Great military and trading elements in the mediaeval city by a blackboard drawing of his native city of Ghent...
Professor Henri Pirenne, rector of the University of Ghent, delivered the second of his series of lectures yesterday afternoon in Emerson D. These lectures, which are on "The Origin of Cities in Western Europe", will be continued today, tomorrow, and Monday at 4.30 o'clock in the same hall. He illustrated his lecture with chalk and blackboard drawings of the walled towns, and with a map of Europe showing the trade routes...