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...reason for this resignation is laid to the door of a proposition to substitute the Flemish language for French in the University of Ghent. This measure was modified in the Senate to permit the use of both languages. The Cabinet then resigned...
...philosophy of the American labor movement is in sharp contrast to the philosophy of most of the European labor movements and it is on this point that American labor is subjected to most criticism in what Mr. W. J. Ghent in a recent book so well terms "the coteries of the metropolitan areas...
After landing at Cherbourg, the group will visit Paris and Versailles, Rome, Perugia, Assissi, Florence, Venice, Milan, Ghent and Bruges, Brussels and Antwerp, the Dutch cities of Amsterdam, Haarlem and the Hague, and finally England. The return voyage will be by the "Saxonia", due to arrive in New York, September fourth...
...Outlook Tower," a laboratory in practical sociology, instituted a social survey of Edinburgh years before the first American survey, collected one of the most complete zoological gardens in the world, and laid the foundation for the city-planning movement which culminated in the London conference of 1910 and the Ghent exposition...
...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...