NETHERLANDS: Royal University Girl

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The learned, scholastic doctors of Leyden University were titillated last week by an announcement that "Mejuffrouw* Louise Van Buren" will began to study at Leyden next September, majoring in Dutch law and literature. Mejuffrow Louise, 18, is not unknown or unbeloved in Leyden. Her great ancestor, William of Orange, founded the University, 352 years ago. Her mother was created an honorary doctor of laws at Leyden (TIME, March 23, 1925). But next September all that is to be officially forgotten. By order of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, her only daughter, Crown Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, 18, will be known at Leyden simply as "Mejuffrouw Van Buren." Netherlands recalled that among the minor titles of their queen is "Countess Van Buren."

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