Word: heidelberg
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...torchlight committee. It is desirable that as many transparencies and special features as possible may be prepared. Every department of the university will be represented, and it is therefore possible to make the procession a success in every sense of the word. At the semi-millenial anniversary at Heidelberg, the special features of the procession of students provoked worldwide comment. There were several bands of mounted Knights in armor, together with many group tableaux. It is proposed in the present case to prepare special features to be transported on trucks, and that the endeavor may be successful all are invited...
Harvard, founded in 1638, out dates a majority of the German Universities, as Halle was founded in 1694, Breslau, 1702; Gottingen, 1737; Berlin, 1810; and Bonn, 1815. Heidelberg, the oldest German University, was founded in 1386. - Cam. Chronicle...
...Heidelberg will celebrate its 800th anniversary in August...
...nature, in which the whole body of students take part, be more fitting to the happy occasion. I have in mind a singular celebration, which I cannot quote accurately because I have not the paper near at hand which gave the account of it. Last year a German university - Heidelberg I think - attained a ripe age among the hundreds. The thousands of students, under several committees, got up a big costume procession after the manner of the Trades-Unions processions of the olden time. The characteristic incidents in the history of the University were represented - the different college societies...
...five hundredth anniversary of Heidelberg University, will occur the second week of August this year...