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...Loeb, '83, is studying chemistry under Bunsen in Heidelberg this winter...
...Heidelberg is poor, and some of its younger men are very poorly paid, but the smallest income of any full professsor is about $1,500. If this seem small it is to be remembered that the average professor's salary in America is scarcely more. Relatively few colleges pay over $2,600-$2,200. On the basis of the bare figures alone, the Germans are better off; the advantage of cheaper living and different social requirements is clear gain. The grevious side of the German university cereer is the period of probation; the Privatdocent butters his bread with hopes...
...President Porter returned from a four and one half months' foreign trip on Sunday. While abroad he has been the recipient of the highest honors, a degree from Heidelberg and an L. L. D. from the University of Edinburgh. His usual good health is restored, and he will resume, after the Thanksgiving recess, his old position with the seniors as instructor in Ethics...
...held in the great Fest Halle and was attended by from four to five thousand persons. At eight and a half o'clock the bout began; and the cock had crowed himself hoarse in welcoming full orbed day before it was ended. I have attended similar gatherings in Heidelberg before, but none which in magnitude and glory could be compared with this. Grave professors, gray-haired students of bygone times, guests, royal and otherwise, jaunty young corps students with their bright-colored caps throng impetuously into the hall. As is usual in a bier kommers, there is some preliminary attempt...
...were thronged with eager multitudes hurrying to advantageous positions whence to view the spectacle. Perhaps the favorite place was on the Heiligenberg, the lofty hill across the Neckar, and there I took my stand in the garden of the Philosophenhoche. Gradually the daylight faded, and starless night came down. Heidelberg was only a confusion of twinkling lights, and on the vast black hill which loomed precipitously behind it there was nothing to mark the location of the castle. All was impenetrable gloom. The lights from the Fest Halle made long, narrow streaks of light across the dark, rushing Neckar lying...