A Language Come Back

"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 of the Flemings (Lowlanders) in the new Belgian state (1830), drove the language from power. Says a correspondent of The New York Times: " Political leaders have feared that popular intellectual development would make the Flemish less docile, but now, partly as a result of the war, they have been forced to restore the University of Ghent to its cultural heirs. The Flemish have their university at last.

" The capture of the university will make it easier for every young Fleming to acquire an education."