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...fellow universities over the world to attend its 550th anniversary celebration (TIME, March 16, 1936). Most British and many U. S. universities sorrowfully refused. Last week educators had a vexing question to decide all over again when they received invitations for the 200th anniversary celebration of the University of Gottingen to be held June...
...delegate was promptly accepted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Haverford, Ohio State, University of Alabama, Wittenberg College, University of Idaho. It was promptly refused by Dartmouth, Carnegie Institute of Technology, the Universities of Virginia, Vermont, New Hampshire and the College of the City of New York. Princeton, which like Gottingen was chartered by George II, Elector of Hanover and King of England, joined Yale in deciding to send only a message praising Gottingen's past...
...might be thinking of steamship fare as well as moral principles was rich Harvard, which announced that "if any senior member of the faculty happens to be in Germany about June 30 he will be designated as the Harvard delegate." The University of Pennsylvania, which had earlier accepted Gottingen's invitation, last week withdrew its acceptance when its representative changed his summer plans...
...field of Applied Mechanics, it would be a matter of the highest scientific importance to establish at Harvard in the general field of applied mechanics, an opportunity similar to that offered by Prandtl at Gottingen, so inclusive and of such strength that it would attract the better grade students and be the recognized training place...
Professor Hocking has been on the Harvard faculty since 1914. He graduated from Harvard in 1901, and received his Ph.D. in 1904; in 1902-03 he was Harvard Fellow in the Universities of Gottingen, Berlin, and Heidelberg. He has taught at the Universities of California, Princeton, and Yale, and since 1920 has been Alford Professor here...