The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17
OLOGNA deserves greater atten.

~ oLotNA observes RreuteT utten-
- ton from the world than II
commonly receives. For some
reasons most travellers leave
unvlsited this very old yet strangely
modern and democratic city Of over
10000 inhabitants. Yet hardly any
one In the world but has heard Of the
town. For this Is the home OF Bologna
sausage, renowned and savory NOR
tadella. writes Edgar Ansel Mowrer To
the Chicago Daily News.
First a Ligutian, then an Etruscan, a
Roman, Il medieval, a thoroughly mod
ern italian town, Bologna Is today the
seat Of Il good museum and n fine col
lection Of paintings of the late REM
vcence. type Guido REM. Architecture
ally. however. II is predominnntly me-
dleval. The finest Of Its fine old public
buildings are a sort Of Lombard gothic.
Over its fine palaces, Its solid pictur.
esQus old-worldliness, rise many tow
ers--that Of the Asinelli more than 800
years old and 800 feet high. 1t leans
four feet out OF the perpendicular.
Near It. near enough to astonish a WIS.,
itor-one cannot imagine why these
two should have been begun within n
year and within thirty feet Of each
other-is the other leaning tower, the
Tore Garisenda, unfinished, only 1853
feet high, but eight feet cut OF the
perpendicular. PiSa's famous leaning
tower Is - feet higher and only leans
II feet. But all this and more can be
found in any guide book.
More interesting are the intimate
IensatiOns and aspects If the place, It's
personality among cities. These de-
mund and will repay Il visit to the
handsome medieval tOwn-mcdicval
yet quite modern-throngcd with his
toric specters. Here EMO, son of the
Emperor Frederick II, was confined for
some twenty years after Bologna with
the rest OF the Lombard league defeat
cd the emperor at Fossaltn. Here In
1871 was held a session Of the Council
OF Trent, here Rosslni studied music
early In the last century, and later
built himself n house. And here, too,
Carducci, modern Italy's grentest poet
and n splendid figure. taught literature
and wrote beautiful and defiant words.
At the hotel where | write Is nm In
scriptlOn 10 the effect that Lord Byron
once "llvcd and conspircd" In this very
house. And the inscription Is by Car
ducci. Yet perhaps the greatest citizen
OF Bologna was Giovanni Calvin. the
inventor Of the g%alvanic battery and a
contemporary Of Franklin.
Oldest University There.
"BonOnia docet"-BOlognn teaches
announces the inscription on many an
old coin. The university, the oldest, II
| am not mistaken. In Europe, Is re-
puted 10 have been founded by Thco-
dosius the Great In 425. For nearly L.
500 years II has been II mecca ~ stu.
dents. Even today It's reputation,
though less thnn It was, Is consider.
able. But in 1862 the number Of stu
dents Is supposed Ia have reached TO-
900. During the middle ages It's name
was synonymous with legal learning
Bologna led In law, rs Paris In the
ology. Women were students and wen
occupied profesSorial chairs.
The beauty Of one fair ~pcdagogue
NovcllH d'Andrca, must have been dis
nstrous. for the good lady was com
PEELED To lecture from behind u screen
The A"rchlginnaSlo Autlcu, IN old build
Ing formerly the seat at the university
bears painted on its inner walls tn,
coats Of arms of thousands of forincI
students. literally from every cuuntr!
In Europe. The ncwc buildings, ncn.
the Pinucotccn, lack atmosphere. We
there are stlll many woman students
! noticed today with pleasure II con
stant passing ~ co-cds through the dig
nliicd main entrance. Alas. the uni
ycrSlty Is itself party To the war. !
placurd outside the building proclaim
II n place Of refuge In cusc of air raid,
: 20 far uninterrupted.
= Disturbed by the War.
! Yet not for nothing Is Bologna
2 fortress guarding tn Apcnnine passo
1nd the seat of IN army corps, At tn