Word: 550th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haven, Conn,--Yale University authorities admitted last night that they had received an invitation to participate in the celebration of Heidelberg's 550th Anniversary. When questioned on the matter, Carl Lohmann, Secretary of the University said. "We get dozens of bids to such gatherings and we rarely over send an official representative. We will decide on the matter in May or June...
President Conant last night issued a statement accepting the invitation to attend the 550th Anniversary of Heidelberg University. Whether Heidelberg has yet replied to Harvard's invitation to participate in the Tercentenary celebration and if so whether the reply was an acceptance or refusal, Harvard authorities were unable to tell last night although replies have been coming in for two weeks from universities all over the world...
...disapproval of the Nazi influence upon German universities and at the same time their sympathy with those members of the universities who are still doing good work under the handicaps of rigorous governmental control. Heidelberg University has just sent Harvard an invitation to participate in the celebration of its 550th anniversity this June, and at the Corporation meeting today it is probable that the reply will be discussed...
Heidelberg terms the occasion the 550th birthday of the University, but according to "Nature", authoritative British scientific journal, this spring will not be the 550 anniversary but the 549th. "Nature" bases its calculations on the charter in the British Museum, which was issued by Pope Urban VI on October 23, 1385. Unless this original source is misleading, the celebration will be one year less than the five and a half century mark...