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After offering Harvard University $1,000 for a scholarship, Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl, psychic friend of Adolf Hitler, sailed from Germany to attend the 25th reunion of his class at Harvard. In his baggage were said to be busts of German Composer von Gluck, German Philosopher Schopenhauer, German President von Hindenburg...
...Europe, fastest-ship afloat, today has covered nearly half of the distance between Cherbourg and New York bearing in one of its staterooms Adolph Hitler's Foreign Press Agent, Ernst F. Sedgewick Hanfstaengl '09, who decided at the last minute to attend the 25th reunion of his class which will be held here next week...
...University has decided that Ernst Hanfstaengl will be welcomed like any other Harvard graduate returning to the twenty-fifth reunion of his class...
Herr Hitler's very intimate "friend," Ernst Hanfstaengl, must have aroused the admiration of the whole conservative world when he so graciously offered his "scholarship" to that college which has given him his "incalculable advantages," as he so charmingly puts it. Incalculable advantages indeed! One cannot measure these by the sufferings of a persecuted race and an exploited class; nor can one see them in the destruction of culture and civilization which is ensuing from a militaristic, war-provoking nationalism in which Hanfstaengl takes such carnal pleasure...
...sporting fields of Harvard" which has so delightfully been carried overseas to grace the hitherto depraved Fatherland. The average Harvard man might feel fairly titillated by Hanfstaengl's glowing tribute to "American energy, character, and idealism." Indeed, conservative professors, if not profiteering patriots, might revel in the lovable Ernst's bid for "intellectual, scientific, and human interchange between the U.S. and Germany, without which there can be no true insight, no true understanding, no true progress...