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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by Edgar K. Frank 



YOUNG SWITZERLAND AT A DRINKING FOUNTAIN 



While the mountain republic revels in the sobriquet, "The Play- 

 ground of Europe," it could also with much truth lay claim to the 

 title of "a school-room for the continent and England," for its insti- 

 tutions of learning are widely known. Of its seven universities, that 

 of Geneva, founded by Calvin in 1559 and generally recognized as one 

 of his greatest gifts to the city, is the most famous, although that of 

 Basel is a century older. 



become very anxious about the disputes 

 of the creature with his Creator, that 

 Voltaire and God had finally become rec- 

 onciled ; the world heard the news with 

 satisfaction, but it always suspected that 

 Voltaire had made the first advances." 



A mile or two farther along the north- 

 ern shore of the lake brings the traveler 

 to Coppet, where Madame de Stael held 

 her brilliant court, surrounded by such 



satellites as the beau- 

 tiful Madame Re- 

 camier, Guizot, the 

 French historian, and 

 Sismondi, the Swiss 

 chronicler; Madame 

 Le Brun, the noted 

 artist, and Cuvier, the 

 French naturalist. 

 Yet, with all her 

 wealth and her bril- 

 liant coterie of wor- 

 shipers, who revolved 

 around her as their 

 sun, from which they 

 derived their intellec- 

 tual light and emo- 

 tional warmth, she 

 was unhappy, holding 

 that a day of Paris 

 was better than a dec- 

 ade of exile, even 

 though that exile be 

 softened by every ma- 

 terial comfort and 

 scenic charm. 



THF HOMF OF THF 

 RIvD CROSS 



The world recog- 

 nizes Geneva as the 

 maternal city of the 

 Internati o n a 1 Red 

 Cross. Not only did 

 her citizen philanthro- 

 pist, Henri Dunant, 

 arouse the world with 

 his book, "Un Souve- 

 nir de Solferino," in 

 which he described the 

 sufferings of those left 

 on the field after that 

 terrible battle in 1859, 

 but it was to this city 

 that the two famous 

 conventions of 1864 

 and 1906 were called to deal with the 

 problems of aid to the wounded and to 

 noncombatants. In the latter year the 

 representatives of 35 nations met and 

 agreed upon the articles under which the 

 Red Cross now operates throughout the 

 world. 



So, delegates from every clime and of 

 every political creed, representing the 

 League of Nations, will not be strangers 



