Word: hanfstaengls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...University authorities have made a splendid distinction in accepting the invitation of Heidelberg University to participate in the celebration of its 550th anniversary. It was unfortunate that the invitation was connected in so many minds with the Hanfstaengl affair. The scholarship offers of Dr. Hanfstaengl were rejected because the donor was "too closely allied with a government which had seriously interfered with educational liberties...
...short while ago Harvard University for the second time rejected an offer of a German scholarship from Ernst Hanfstaengl, or "Putzy" as the Columbia Spectator prefers to call the Nazi Press Chief, who has become renowned as the musician who soothes the worried Hitler to sleep...
Because the door donor was "too closely allied with a government which had interfered seriously with educational liberties," Harvard university has refused the $10,000 gift offered by Ernst Hanfstaengl, a Harvard alumnus and Nazi press chief. The gift was offered in response to a form letter sent out by the University to its alumni asking for assistance in the development of its national scholarships. This gift would make possible ten years of study at the University of Munich for American students. For the same reason, according to official announcements, the university administration last year refused a smaller gift from...
...regret the refusal of the University to accept the Hanfstaengl offer of a Munich Scholarship. The petty question of manners and formality is not at all revelant to the actual issue of the case: namely, whether or not student would derive benefit from such European study...
...selected student does not imply credence in the political beliefs of Germany any more than the granting of a Harvard scholarship to a resident of Alabama implies support of Negro suppression in southern United States. And the student's acceptance of the scholarship neither entails any obligation to Herr Hanfstaengl nor evinces approval of his character. This scholarship is an opportunity for intimate investigation into the thoughts and customs of Europe; and to construe any other meaning is to slander the student's intelligence. The very purpose of education is to fit the mind for just this sort of impartial...