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The Pedel (Beadle)
PedelA pedel (beadle of collegiate universities in the United Kingdom is a person that performs varying duties and often represents the college to outsiders through wearing a uniform and providing information. In Dutch universities, the pedel helps PhD students and professors with the formal sides of the thesis defense or the inaugural speech respectively.
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Leiden University
The university was founded in 1575 by William of Orange as a gift for the resistance of the people of Leiden against the Spanish occupation. Back then, the university was the first Dutch university, it got the latin name: Academia Lugduno Batava and goes by the motto Praesidium Libertatis (Bastion of Freedom). To date it has nine faculties and around 17,000 students.