Word: collegium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Music Club and Collegium Musicum, though they are primarily for music concentrators are open to anyone interested in hearing and playing music not commonly done in concerts. The first open meeting of the Music Club is tentatively set for October 25, and the Collegium will begin its meetings very soon...
Executions- In Svobodny, a small Siberian town near the Manchukuan frontier. 44 Russian men and women were lined up before firing squads, shot dead. Not until after eleven days did news reach Moscow and the world. The Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the U. S. S. R. had found all guilty of spying, of plotting railway wrecks in Siberian military areas "on orders of the Japanese Secret Service...
Heidelberg University was erected on a foundation of race persecution when, in 1386, Elector Rupert I of the Palatine seized from Heidelberg's Jews a group of dwellings to house his new Collegium Artistarum. Reversing its position three centuries later, Heidelberg offered sanctuary to a hounded Jew, celebrated Philosopher Baruch Spinoza. Last week Heidelberg's plans for its 550th birthday celebration in June went notably awry because sister institutions throughout the world believed that Heidelberg had taken up Jew-baiting once again, lost caste as a centre of intellectual liberality...
...they had been refused British counsel to defend them, it was announced that British lawyers would be allowed to attend the trial as observers. Finally a squad of Soviet lawyers was rounded up to act for the defense, and the arrested Britons were summoned to the offices of the Collegium of Attorneys to pick their favorites. Their choices: Engineer Monk-house-Nikolai Kanadev; Engineer Thornton-Ilya Browde; Engineer Cushny-Peter Lidov; Engineers Nordwall & Gregory-Aaron Dolmatovski. Commented Correspondent Walter Duranty...