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Those who have gazed at the tall spire of the Strasbourg Cathedral, shrouded in Gothic mystery, remember that this is the place where Goethe received his education. They will remember that the Provinces were, until the time of Louis XIV, a part of the Holy Roman Empire, that from 1871 until 1918 they were part of the old German Empire. Gazing around the streets, these people will find German signs faintly obliterated by French; they will become conscious every now and then that German is being spoken by the passerby. The opponents of M. Herriot ask: "How can a country...
Cranking up, minus pontoons, at Karachi, India, the U. S. round-the-world trio took the air for Atlantic shores. Constantinople, Bucharest, Vienna, Strasbourg flashed by beneath them. On the seventh day they landed at Paris. Chagrined at being too poor to afford her own circummundane expedition, France none the less accorded the Americans an effusive reception-squadronal escorts of planes from Strasbourg on, cheering crowds on the Champs Elysées, cordial officials at Le Bourget airdrome...
...when he made his first study of medical schools. During the past two years Mr. Flexner has been conducting a survey of medical education throughout the world. German and Austrian universities, he found "suffering economically." "France has been quite stationary," except insofar as the acquisition of the University of Strasbourg gives the country, for the first time, a modern medical school plant. In Great Britain appear signs of a new vitality in medical teaching; full time teachers have been established in London and Edinburgh schools; research is being conducted in a well organized manner under a Medical Research Council...
...Ruhr salient by taking strategic positions to the South in Westphalia. It was estimated that France could put 200,000 men in motion: 55,000 already in the Ruhr basin, 95,000 in the Rhineland, 50,000 massed near the frontier, including large garrisons at Metz and Strasbourg, with reserves at Belford Epinal and Verdun...
...trip in France during the celebration of the Pasteur Centenary at Strassbourg has been arranged for members of the American medical profession, under the patronage of the French ministries of public works and public instruction. Besides Paris, Strasbourg, and the battlefields, the joyriding doctors will visit Besancon, Dôle, Arbois, towns connected with Pasteur's early life, and the famous thermal baths at Evian, Aix, Vichy...