"We want a Flemish university.'' For a century that cry has been in the hearts of the Flemish, 3,000,000 of them, three-sevenths of the popution of Belgium. By recent vote of the Belgian Parliament, the Flemish language will replace French at the University of Ghent, and the 3,000,000 rejoice in their emancipation from the tyranny of a foreign language.
Flemish was the language of a great culture. It was the language of Charles V, Rubens, Van Dyck, Teniers, Reynaert the Fox and a hundred other immortals. But political troubles, culminating in the inclusion...
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