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...guilder fine to be paid within six hours, the sum was raised in time by Christians who handed the money over to the local rabbi, while in five Protestant churches in Amsterdam protests were openly uttered. When a Jewish professor was forced out of the University of Delft (Dutch M. I. T.) the students struck. Nazis closed the university the next day. Said an alumnus in the U. S.: "It makes us very proud to have our alma mater the first to be closed...
When John Evelyn in 1641 thus recorded the flourishing artistic life of Holland, Jan Vermeer of Delft, who was to become the most finished realist of the Dutch School, was just nine years old. Last fortnight, visitors at a far greater fair-Queen Wilhelmina's Jubilee (TIME, Sept. 12)-found Rotterdam again furnished with pictures, and the greatest attraction of all was a painting by Jan Vermeer. Displayed among 450 Netherlands-owned masterpieces at the Boymans Museum, Christ at Emmaus (see cut) is no drollery but one of the three religious paintings ascribed to the artist. To Netherlanders...
...funnels, and its $12,000,000 cost was met entirely without Government subsidy or mail contracts. First ship to explore New York's Hudson River 329 years ago was also Dutch-Henry Hudson's Halve Maen, which would fit neatly into the Nieuw Amsterdam's great delft-tiled swimming pools...
...FANS. This was no arrant sensationalism. Dutchman Max Euwe, chess champion of the world, was defending his title against One-time Champion Alexandre Alekhine. The move in question occurred in Haarlem during the sixth game of a 30-game peregrinating match (played in The Hague, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Leyden, Delft). Dr. Alekhine opened with a queen's gambit and was met by a Slav defense. On his sixth move Dr. Alekhine suddenly offered to sacrifice a knight. Dr. Euwe nibbled his fingers and stared at the board, nonplussed. A sacrifice so early in the game, in that position...
...appointment of Dr. Jacob Pieter Den Hartog and Mr. Arthur Casagrande as lecturers in the Harvard Engineering School was announced yesterday by H. E. Clifford, dean of the School. Dr. Den Hartog, a graduate of the Technical University at Delft, Holland, will conduct courses in Kinetics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1920, and has been affiliated with the Research Laboratory of the Westinghouse Electric Company since 1925. Before coming to Harvard he has lectured at the universities of Pittsburgh and Michigan and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...