Word: heidelberg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seize him in his apartment at a hotel in Eberbach, Baden, Germany. Out side the hotel, in an old U. S. army car, waited Lieutenant Griffith, U. S. Army, and "Prince" Gargarin, a Russian. After the shooting a crowd menaced the two in the car, who promptly started for Heidelberg and were arrested en route, charged with attempting to kidnap Bergdoll. Bergdoll went free of any homicidal charge. He was a local hero. Lieutenant Griffith and " Prince " Gargarin, jailed and awaiting a trial, escaped a lynching by no great margin...
Word now comes that in the quiet of his Mississippi home he is rereading Horace, Homer, and Sophocles, love for which were developed 50 years ago at the University of the South (Sewanee, Tenn.), at the Uni-versity of Virginia and at the Uni-versity of Heidelberg...
...Heidelberg women students are not permitted to duel. They have received all the privileges accorded to the male members of Germany's famous university except this one, but the fair creatures insist that they should have the right to slash one another's cheeks open with swords. An American student at the Uni-versity before the war was admitted to one of the celebrated dueling clubs - an almost unprecedented honor. After a wait of a few weeks he was called upon to take part in a duel. It is an inviolable rule that the opponents may cut, parry...
...girls of Heidelberg. They want duelling rights...
...mark cannot come back to normal value for generations", said Mr. John Mez, correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung at the Washington Conference on Armament and a member of the faculty at the University of Heidelberg, when interviewed recently on the economic condition of Germany by a CRIMSON reporter. "The paper mark is held at its present value only by the deposit of one billion gold marks in the Reichsbank. If Germany should have to pay that out, the paper mark would indeed become worthless, like a Russian ruble. If this gold backing is kept in the bank, the mark will...