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A BRIEF account of the first day of the centenary festival at Berlin, and of the notable utterance of the German Emperor at its opening Festakt, was given in last week's issue of NATURE. The celebration lasted over three days (October 10–12), with some sporadic entertainments on the fourth. Unter den Linden, from the Brandenburg gate to the royal castle and the cathedral, showed the chief, if not the only, signs that something unusual was in hand. For Berlin, as one of the academic orators remarked, is not a university city; it is a city containing a university. The well-known building itself, with its statues of the Humboldts and Helmholtz, was decked with garlands, and flags fluttered about the opera square and the new Aula, which is the old library. Figures in evening dress, or uniform, or quaint university costume, flitted here and there among the city crowds, and students in the caps and colours of their corps drove in open carriages along the wide alleys of the central avenue of Berlin. But except when the torchlight procession was in motion, or the Emperor with his guards passe'd swiftly along, the hurrying population was little stirred, and traffic followed its usual course.
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The Centenary of Berlin University . Nature 84, 496–498 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084496c0
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