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Heidelberg University is one of the oldest in all Germany, and has had an eventful history. It was founded as early as 1356 by the elector Rupert, but did not acquire the sanction of the Pope, then indispensable to institutions of learning, until 1386. It was modeled after the Paris University of more ancient date, and rejoiced in no less than four faculties, who governed and controlled all matters relating to the college, both financial and education. For many years it was without a library, but this was added by one of the later electors. During the stormy period...
...They invalidate agreements, some of which have been made by and with the sanction of a "graduate committee," appointed in accordance with the desire of the faculty itself...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-The author of "Our Ranking System" feels under obligation to his reviewer for vouchsafing his approval to the two more vital reforms; the third, had it been clearly stated, would also, the author believes, have received his reviewer's sanction. The "reformer's" opinions are not so different from the reviewer's own as the latter imagines...
...only goes to show how untenable was their original position about which our views have not changed in the slightest. We believe that they overstepped their authority as well as the bounds of prudence, and we think that in common justice to the students, the faculty should refuse to sanction their action. When this is done, if the faculty still see any grounds for objecting to foot ball as at present played, we do not doubt that reform measures can be adopted, which may even receive foreign co-operation, and which will not in any case put Harvard students...
...order changeth, giving place to the new,' and it has always been the glory and the boast of Harvard that she keeps abreast of the popular current. Yet even Harvard may well pause and reflect before she breaks away so entirely from the old moorings, before she gives the sanction of her great example to measures so revolutionary...