President von Hindenburg made a donation of 100,000 marks ($23,800). He traveled to Cologne and personally chipped it into a fund now being raised to restore the great Cathedral. As he journeyed through the recently evacuated First Rhineland Zone (TIME, Feb. 15), crowds of cheering Rhinelanders met him at every station.
At the ancient University of Bonn, some 20 miles farther up the Rhine, a dignified faculty made him a Doctor of Political Science; an irrepressible student body elected him to membership in its Interfraternity Council.
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