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...newest German universities, was too "young" for the honor of being first to get U.S. professors since Hitler. This complaint cut no ice at Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins' 56-year-old Chicago, youngest of top U.S. universities. Eventually other American lecturers will teach at Munich, Heidelberg, Bonn and Marburg...
Died. Dr. Wilhelm Marx, 83, scholarly Chancellor of pre-Nazi Germany (1923-24, 1926-28), who tried to solve the knotty reparations problem by agreeing to the Dawes Plan, in 1925 the unsuccessful opponent of Hindenburg for the presidency; in Bonn, Germany. The Nazis indicted him for fraud but they never pressed the charges, allowed him to sink into obscurity, where American troops found him in 1945, "bewildered by events," ignored by his people, all but forgotten by the world...
...rambunctious history began one day in 1895 when blue-eyed, roly-poly Harry Tammen, bartender at Denver's Windsor Hotel, strolled into the littered city room of the old Evening Post. At his side was a new-found friend, swarthy, wax-mustached Frederick. Gilmer Bonfils (pronounced bonn-fees), a dashing promoter who had just cleaned up $800,000 in the notorious "Little Louisiana" lottery. To weary Postmen playing poker, Harry Tammen drawled: "Don't let us disturb you but we've just taken over this paper...
...science and mob emotion for disciplined thought: a revolution which would, if it could, grind Harvard with Yale and Princeton and Chicago and Pennsylvania and Stanford and the rest into the rubbish which was once the University of Prague and the University of Heidelberg and the University of Bonn...
Europe's great Protestant theologian is Calvinist Karl Earth. Expelled from Bonn University in 1935 for refusing to take the Hitler oath of allegiance, he has been lecturing at Basel University in his native Switzerland. He leaves this month to lecture at the Russian-sponsored University of Berlin. Sometimes called "a theologian's theologian," neo-orthodox, nonhumanist Earth has exerted great influence in both Europe and America; when he speaks, churchmen listen...