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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...
...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...
...chance in the Gordon Bennett must survive a national elimination race. This race was held last week in the U. S. Seven large gas bags left San Antonio in the presence of 100,000 people. The pilots were Captain H. E. Honeywell, Kansas City Cooperative Club, making his 550th ascent; Herbert von Thaden, Detroit Aviation Society; Major Norman W. Peek, U. S. Air Service Balloon No. 1; Captain Edmund W. Hill and Lieutenant Ashley C. McKinley, two other Air Service pilots; W. T. Van Norman, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. The construction of a balloon is comparatively simple. It consists...