Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sherwood and Mr. Whiteside in today's "Crimson" say that it was bad manners to refuse Hanfstaengel's Munich Scholarship because he offered it in good faith. This might be justified, except that in my opinion he did not offer it in good faith but as a rather crude attempt to put Harvard in a hole and martyrize himself...
Harvard might have technically blundered by sending him the letter, but good faith does not rest on technicalities. Hanfy is a professional publicity man and he can recognize a form letter when he sees one. He can distinguish between what is President Conant's personal signature and what is not. And he surely knows that if President Conant wanted to change his attitude, he would not inform Hanfy merely by a letter asking for a gift. But the real point is that even if Hanfy did not realize the letter was a mistake, he was asked for one thing...
Perhaps Hanfy should not have been sent the letter, but it is silly to claim that he acted in good faith. He leaned so far backward in his answer to President Conant that he betrayed himself by his innocence. It was a choice between crucifying him on his own cross or biting on his line; and when Harvard wants to be a sucker, she can probably find a less obvious line to bite on. Arthur M. Rosenbloom...
...statement of the University's obligation, which was to accept. We do not question the action of President Conant in refusing Dr. Hanfstaengl's original offer; and we have no doubt that the recent form letter sent him was a blunder. However, Dr. Hanfstaengl's reply, made in good faith, rendered a second refusal impossible...
...Carl Vogel, translated by a Benedictine named Rev. Celestine Kapsner, published at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minn, with the official imprimatur of Bishop Joseph F. Busch of St. Cloud and the Nihil Obstat of Monsignor John P. Durham. Hence it was presumed not to err in faith or morals. The Denver Register, whose editor, Monsignor Matthew J. W. Smith, splashed it on the front page of his weekly, was deluged with letters...