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Desirable as it might be to turn the present college into an Old Heidelberg, it cannot be done in all the respects of which Dr. Phelps speaks. College education has become too practical to isolate it from the affairs of the world; and especially is this the case where college Professors desert their class-rooms, almost while lectures are in progress, to tackle the practical and very difficult problems of economics and finance and social relations. The college is now an integral part of the machinery for doing the work of the world, and as such it can no longer...
Bestimmungsmensuren. Meanwhile Heidelberg celebrated Handsome Adolf's birthday in strange fashion. In the Hirsch-Gasse (Stag Alley) is an ancient beer hall and on an upper floor is a long timbered room known to tourists as the oldest fencing hall in Germany. Here for over 100 years members of the student fighting corps have staged their slashing bouts. The Republic's law against student dueling was lifted in Prussia, Bavaria and Baden three weeks ago (TIME, April 17). Heidelberg boys celebrated Adolf Hitler's birthday last week by holding the first public, open, officially recognized student duel...
...four fighting corps sat in separate groups, embroidered caps on their heads, colored ribbons across their chests, very solemn, very earnestly drinking beer. Official guests, something new for a student duel, were the Rector of the University, Dr. Willy Andreas, a group of professors, the chief of police of Heidelberg and the State's Attorney for Baden. The spectators' gallery was jammed with alumni, Nazis in uniform, even a few women...
...Wisconsin. In 1928 a $1,250,000 Memorial Union was built, and in its basement a genuine Altdeutscher Rathskeller. In the old days, Wisconsin beer-drinkers frequented the Hausmann brewery in Madison. Its bar is now in the new Rathskeller, a strictly masculine sanctuary on whose walls are painted Heidelberg students brandishing steins, a fat monk on a wine cask, a bartender with Speise-und-Getränke Karten, a motto: Des Lebens Sonnenschein ist trinken, lieben, fröhlich sein ("Life's sunshine is to drink, to love, to be merry"). At first the Rathskeller had another...
Popular Enlightenment. Called the youngest German ever to hold major Cabinet rank, 35-year-old Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels (Ph. D., Heidelberg) became last week Minister of Propaganda and Popular Enlightenment, a Ministry which he promptly organized in five departments of nation-wide dictatorial power: 1) Propaganda; 2) Radio; 3) Press; 4) Cinema; 5) Theatre...