Word: heidelberg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...investigating magistrate, one Judge Trautwein, continued mum as to the exact nature of the offense which Bergdoll was alleged to have committed with a Heidelberg girl some three years ago. Said the cautious Judge: "It is just a simple case which concerns alleged offenses against the proprieties. All I can say is that Herr Bergdoll is being held in connection with certain complaints filed in behalf of some children, girls and boys...
Last week Mr. Sachs achieved his ambition. He came forward with a girl who swore that famed Philadelphia draft-dodger Bergdoll committed an immoral act with her, in Heidelberg, some three years ago. Mr. Sachs openly and publicly exulted when slacker Bergdoll was clapped into jail at Mosbach, Germany, while the Mosbach police "investigated...
Before the war German universities played a very tangible part in the interests of student America. Like their great English rivals they served not only to supplement the work of the American colleges, but also to direct them, wherever possible, along higher paths of teaching. Oxford and Heidelberg were names of comparative importance. The lack of meticulous restraint, the scholarly enthusiasm, and the opportunity for intensive development in these universities was talked of with equal admiration by intellectual America...
...only wrought great changes in the educational facilities of Germany, but it severed the bond of sympathy between the universities of the conflicting nations. Oxford still was able to lend its tutorial system to Harvard. Heidelberg dropped from sight. Nor could the chaos which followed peace in Germany prove any more tempting to foreign interests than the state of actual war. Sofa to say, that America would ever treat with importance the conditions extant in German universities while the mark was tied to a toy balloon...
...world somewhere, "who at the age of about 50 made up his mind to spend the rest of his life in studying at various universities. . . .This person first took the course at Paris and then went on to Vienna, with the intention of going on to Jena and Heidelberg after that, and of eventually bringing up at Oxford or Cambridge. . . . He must be a sort of Wandering Jew of erudition, with the important difference . . . that he goes around the world happily instead of miserably, and may leave it, with all his load of learning clinging to his soul, when...