Word: 550th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...date was June 28, 1914, a memorable day, 25 years ago this week. It was the 550th anniversary, of the battle of Kossovo ("the Field of Blackbirds") in which the Serbs lost their independence to the Turks. It was the day which Franz Ferdinand-Archduke of Austria-Este, Heir Apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne-and his good Czech wife, Sophie, chose to visit Sarajevo, and it was the day when the trigger was pulled which set off World...
Last year Heidelberg University, from whose faculty Nazis had ousted 44 members for racial or political causes, provoked a frenzy of educational discussion by inviting its fellow universities over the world to attend its 550th anniversary celebration (TIME, March 16, 1936). Most British and many U. S. universities sorrowfully refused. Last week educators had a vexing question to decide all over again when they received invitations for the 200th anniversary celebration of the University of Gottingen to be held June...
Following a heated discussion at Phillips Brooks House last night, the Harvard Student Union defeated, by the close margin of 25-24, a resolution urging President Conant to withdraw Harvard's representative to the 550th anniversary celebration at Heidelberg University this June...
...resolution that President Conant reconsider his decision to send Harvard delegates to the Heldelberg 550th anniversary in view of the recent revelations of Hitlerite propaganda in connection with the celebration, will be put before the House. This resolution will be carefully discussed, and anyone who wishes to exercise his lungs may speak. The Union, however, doesn't seem to realize that it is a little too late to withdraw Harvard's delegates from the Heldelberg gathering, and it presumes that President Conant and the Corporation accepted the invitation to participate in the celebration entirely unfamiliar with the existing situation...
...resolution will request the President to reconsider his decision to send delegates to Heidelberg's 550th anniversary, in view of the recent news that the celebration will be devoted to Nazi propaganda...