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...Elector Rupert I of the Palatine seized from Heidelberg's Jews a group of dwellings to house his new Collegium Artistarum. Reversing its position three centuries later, Heidelberg offered sanctuary to a hounded Jew, celebrated Philosopher Baruch Spinoza. Last week Heidelberg's plans for its 550th birthday celebration in June went notably awry because sister institutions throughout the world believed that Heidelberg had taken up Jew-baiting once again, lost caste as a centre of intellectual liberality...
...Haven, Conn., March 4--Two days after stating Yale rarely dispatched delegates to anniversary celebrations, Carl A. Lehman, Yale publicity chief, announced yesterday that an officials representative would probably be sent to Heidelberg for its supposed 550th anniversary...
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...
...statement of acceptance came shortly after the Corporation meeting and is as follows: "Harvard University plans to appoint a delegate to the 550th Anniversary of the Founding of the University of Heidelberg. The President and Fellows, in accepting the invitation of the University of Heidelberg, recognize the ancient ties by which the Universities of the world are united and which are independent of the political conditions existing in any country at any particular time...
...University authorities have made a splendid distinction in accepting the invitation of Heidelberg University to participate in the celebration of its 550th anniversary. It was unfortunate that the invitation was connected in so many minds with the Hanfstaengl affair. The scholarship offers of Dr. Hanfstaengl were rejected because the donor was "too closely allied with a government which had seriously interfered with educational liberties...