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Under chairmanship of Dr. William James Reid Jr. of Pittsburgh, a United Presbyterian, the delegates urged a unified theology based on their several standards -the Westminster Confession of Faith, Larger and Shorter catechism, doctrinal statement of the U. P. Church, the Heidelberg Catechism, the Canons of the Synod of Dort and the Belgic Confession...
...Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg especially, dueling is preserved by the students in defiance of national law, in the belief that it teaches self-control and physical courage. The "sport duel" is fought "not on any point of personal honor but as a test of endurance of bloodletting." The leaders of the undergraduate "corporations" tell off the representatives who are to meet. At Heidelberg, each member of the most select of the 44 corporations must fight ten duels during his three-year residence...
...idea for an instrument which would dramatize astronomy, make it accessible to lay people, belongs to Professor Max Wolf, astronomer at Heidelberg University. His suggestion was executed by Carl Zeiss, Jena's great optical goods manufacturer. This original is now at the Deutsches Museum, Munich. All subsequent planetariums have been made by Zeiss. Most interesting of all is on top of the Hannoverischer Anzeiger's ten-story building at Hanover, built for publicity...
Today however the freedom of the port seems to have been extended to include a freedom of action in transit which involves great inconvenience and annoyance to other travellers. Irritating as it must have been to the sixteenth century tourist to see the Heidelberg boys of the day going through the custom house Scot free, this feeling is hardly to be classed with the reaction of the honest Cambridge citizen returning from the great city showered in Stygian darkness with ground glass...
After 14 years of diligence and research Dr. Friedrich Bergius of Heidelberg University last week announced another ersatz: sugar from wood. He considers "all difficulties solved" in turning wood into cellulose, treating the cellulose with hydrochloric acid to get ersatz-holz-zucker. The product is similar to beet sugar in taste and application...