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Wein, who has taught philosophy at universities in Berlin and Goettingen, spoke on "The Modern German University." He is here on a Rockefeller Research Fellowship...
...leading role, and also director of the play, will be Kurt von Faber du Faur, who has been in charge of many presentations at the University of Goettingen and in Florence. Other members of the cast will include Harvard instructors and students from the College and Radcliffe...
...latest press report tells us that Harvard will accept the Nazi invitation of Goettingen, which Yale and Columbia and the great universities of England have all refused...
Like Yale and Princeton, Harvard University has declined to send representatives to the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the German University of Goettingen. The polite excuse is that it could not find any one to go. Had the authorities spoken with their customary frankness they would have made it plain that the refusal is in no sense a reflection on the German people or on German scholarship, but is a protest against the restrictions on academic and individual freedom imposed by the Hitler government...
...intellectual liberty and the nurseries of progress in the eternal struggle to test what is new by what is true. When the German universities have once more regained their freedom American representatives will gladly send their delegates and do them honor. Such greetings as may be sent to Goettingen and other German universities will be coolly polite and perfunctory until the great wrong done to German scholarship by the Hitler government has been atoned...