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...hours before the opening whistle blew for the game on Saturday, the following telegram, addressed to the CRIMSON, was received from Ernst F. S. Hanfstaengl '09, director of the Nazi press...
...Haven today stop Hope we roll up big score am listening in on the game stop Invite any and all members of the Harvard team who may be in Europe next summer to be my guests in Munich, irrespective race, color, or previous condition of servitude. (Signed) Hanfstaengl...
Somewhat annoyed at the unexpected publicity his telegram to Dr. Ernst Hanfstaengl received last week Francis P. Magoun, Jr. '16, associate professor of Comparative Literature, told the CRIMSON that it was a decided breach of confidence and good friendship which the Nazi press agent showed when he allowed the telegram which Magoun had sent to be published in the Nazi organ, DEUTSCHE ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG. for October 11. Magoun insisted that he had cabled the Harvard alumnus as one close friend to another, and that he was at a loss to understand why "Putsy" had broken faith over this personal matter...
...Hanfstaengl has received the following telegram from Dr. Francis P. Magoun, Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University: "The Harvard Alumni are ashamed on account of the action of the University Corporation." Another American scholar, Professor Matthew T. Mellon, has likewise informed Dr. Hanfstaengl by telegram, that he himself has offered President Conant of Harvard University $1000 for a scholarship, with the condition that the money should be used according to the intention of Dr. Hanfstaengl. "As an American citizen I should like to place my service at your disposal, so that your good intentions will be acknowledged in America...
...Hanfstaengl scholarship, which was to make possible a year of study at the University of Munich for a Harvard student, was rejected, it was reported, on the grounds that Hanfstaengl was closely connected with a government that had destroyed in Germany fundamental principles of universities. That these grounds do not correspond to the view of the Harvard Faculty one could conclude as a matter of course simply from the fact that the present Dean of Harvard's renowned Law Faculty, Roscoe Pound, accepted two months ago an honorary doctorate from the University of Berlin. Besides, it should be recalled that...