Word: ghent
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Professor Henri Pirenne, rector of the University of Ghent, who has come to this country as the first Belgian exchange professor to American universities, will deliver the first of his lectures on "The Origin of Cities in Western Europe" at Emerson D this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. Professor Pirenne, who arrived at President Lowell's house yesterday afternoon, will stay there until Saturday, after which he will be at the Copley Plaza Hotel until Tuesday, October 31. These lectures, which will be open to the public, will be delivered in French; in addition to the one this afternoon, others...
Professor Henri Pirenne, rector of the University of Ghent and one of the leading European historians, who has served in this country as the first Belgian exchange professor to American universities, will visit the University next week to give a series of lectures on "The Origin of Cities in Western Europe...
...Ages. He has been president of the International Union of Academies since its organization in 1920. During the war he and his colleague. Professor Paul Frederieq, were deported to Germany and kept as prisoners because of their refusal to co-operate with the German reorganization of the University of Ghent...
...Webb graduated from Haverford College in 1914 with Phi Beta Kappa honors, receiving an M.A. degree from the University in 1920. He plans to study European business organization at the University of Brussels. The other three Belgian universities at which the American students may study are those of Ghent, Liege and Louvain...
...outgrowth of the extensive Hoover relief work in that country during the war, and is financed out of funds remaining in the hands of the commission after all relief work was finished. Grants from it have been made for the endowment of the four Belgian universities at Brussels, Louvain, Ghent and Liege, for the School of Mines at Mons, and a Colonial School...