with students from the imperial era wearing traditional fraternity uniforms and bearing flags together with military units it was a major event something like eight hundred people were invited to. the ceremony was also attended by many berlin functionaries as well as. now and s.s. officer and appointed mayor all but amherst. right. and i can try to play up to. one. seated at the front where seventy one faculty deans and professors they've been brought in to provide the german face to the newly established rice university on french soil. like the rush itself the university was intended to last a thousand years the regime planned that it would eventually eclipse even the sorbonne in paris with germany still in the midst of war the university president