Word: holland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greening. Students endure hazing so they can get into the Student Corps, social clubs that count roughly one-fourth of Holland's 45,000 college students as their members. For two weeks each fall, freshmen, called "foetuses," go about with shaven heads, submitting to insults and even beatings from upperclassmen. Since they are considered "greenhorns," the process is known as "ontgroening" (de-greening). Girls go through a mild form of hazing, though when Princess Beatrix was at Leiden University, authorities considered even that too rough and ordered special treatment for her. But the boys get the works...
...make the rest work. Moved less by mercy than the practical need for cheap labor to work Haiti's mines and plantations, the King authorized the importation of 4,000 Africans, and the enduring Negro proved a much better worker than any West Indian. Soon England, France, Holland and Portugal joined the search for slaves to cultivate their newly acquired possessions in the New World. Nearly 3,000,000 Africans were shipped across the Atlantic in the 17th century, almost 7,000,000 in the 18th...
...Maryland and not much more populous than New York City. Belgium nonetheless has been more like two nations than one since Dutch rule ended and independence was achieved in 1830. In the north are the farm lands of Flanders, inhabited by a conservative, Catholic people with deep roots in Holland; in the south the spiritedly liberal, anticlerical Walloons occupy what once was the seat of France's Carolingian monarchy. Richer and better educated, the Walloons for a century dominated the country; so seared with bitterness were the Flemings at their second-rate position that many openly collaborated with...
...Wilde's letters were available, and of those in print, many had been bowdlerized. For Wilde's trials left British society with a sense of collective embarrassment that lingered for decades. The author's son Vyvyan lived a life of "concealment and repression" under the name Holland. In 1946, when Hesketh Pearson published what is still the only good biography of Wilde, the playwright was still a forbidden subject among many who had known him. and much material necessary to a biographer simply was not available...
...ELMER J. HOLLAND House of Representatives Washington...