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...harsh realism of the nineteenth century vanished, and the age of romance was with us once more. The year of grace, 1386, is drawing toward a close, and his Royal Highness, Ruprecht I, is celebrating the founding of his new university by a grand procession through the streets of Heidelberg. Here comes the herald, clad in velvet, and bearing aloft the yellow banner and black eagles of the Prince. Then follow four trumpeters, braying right lustily, albeit somewhat dolorously, upon their slender brass horns. Six knights in armor, with iron helmets and prodigious spears are followed by a company...
...huzzas from a joyful people and the peals of music. A grand jubilee car with two maidens in white, representing the two genuises of the Schola Ruperto Carola, gay modern banners, modern dresses and corps of modern students - and the vision is gone, and we are standing in the Heidelberg of to-day, cheering with the excited populace. The procession has taken a half hour to pass and is considerably over a mile long. The horses have been especially noteworthy for their spirit and beauty. We join the huzzas of the Heidelbergers, of whom not one is silent. Even...
...prancing horses, albeit the pressure of the crowd, forcing their tender necks against the ropes over which they hung on tiptoe, threatened slow strangulation, if not instant decapitation. Frantic vendors charge up and down the street, bawling out the name and nature of their wares: Photographs of Heidelberg, programmes of the procession, jubilee medals, whips, whistles, badges, sandwiches and pretzels. As nine o'clock approaches, the excitement becomes intense. Every available standing place is occupied; every window is full; some housetops are covered. One original man has removed enough tiles from his roof to admit of the protrusion...
...with fluid refreshment. Above us looms the beautiful facade of the castle, its grim statues and stone gorgons, its fluting and arabesques, all that is uncouth and grotesque and mournful and majestic, flooded over with electric light and thrown into sharp relief. Far beneath us twinkle the lights of Heidelberg, from whose distant streets a gentle murmur is upborne. About us are throngs of students in their bright colored caps; old veterans are clasping each other's hands and recalling by-gone days; grave professors grow ruddy and boyish; the younger students sing snatches of college songs; and limitless beer...
...Wednesday morning the members of the university, past and present, formed at the university and marched to the Heiliggeistkirche to hear the oration, the central literary feature of the jubilee, pronounced by Dr. Kuno Fisher. There is no more noted man in Heidelberg to-day than Kuno Fisher, and none whose works are better known in the United States. American students at Heidelberg are always partial to him, both because of his celebrity and because of his exceptionally clear and distinct pronunciation of his mother tongue. But still he is not to be recommended to the young beginner in German...