Education: Lw

Poland's University of Lwów (which Americans might as well pronounce woof) is 285 years old, and nobody knows the troubles it's seen. When the Big Three gave the Polish city of Lwów to Russia, the University lost its home. It found a new home by crossing Poland to Breslau, a German city which the Big Three gave to Poland in exchange for Lwow.

Last week 1 ,300 pinch-faced Polish men & women were studying at Breslau (now called Wroclaw) at the onetime German university. Biggest difficulty: the university at Breslau had no books in Polish, only in German. Groused one student: "Here...

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