Word: hanfstaengls
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...demonstration that took place during the Harvard commencement was aroused in protest against the presence of Ernst F. S. Hanfstaengl '09, Hitler's publicity agent, at the exercises being held then. The seven freed by Governor Ely yesterday had been sentenced to six months hard labor at the Middlesex House of Correction and fined $20 each on October 23, in spite of pleas for clemency on the part of Harvard students, and of President Conant himself...
...editorial policy there has resulted a complete lack of policy. By way of example, I cite the ludicrous sophistry of the editorial published in Friday morning's paper of last week on the Mellon scholarship. If you desired to change your position from that previously taken on the Hanfstaengl scholarship, it would have been far wiser and infinitely more honest to have admitted flatly your earlier mistake. Or, if you still felt as you had previously, the honorable course would have been to so state...
...want German study for their graduates? But if they accept it won't the Hitler government through its demagogic press agent say that the Corporation has changed their stand and now will take a scholarship which a short time before was offered in the spirit of that which Herr Hanfstaengl made his gift? (Name withheld by request...
Although Professor Magoun is known to have been in sympathy with the Nazi regime for many years this was the first time that he has been publicly revealed as being against the Corporation's stand on the Hanfstaengl scholarship. He is known to be a close friend of President Conant and many members of the Faculty are surprised and amused at this difference in opinion over a political matter. In commenting upon the article in the ZEITUNG Magoun pointed out that it was a mistranslation and was not truly representative of the spirit in which he sent the confidential cable...
Matthew T. Mellon who made the offer of the scholarship, and who also cabled Hanfstaengl indicated that he would certainly make his offer of a scholarship for German study to the University again. This time, however, he pointed out that he was to make it merely as an American citizen, and attach no strings to the gift. It would be given as a grant for German study and without any conditions at all implied or stipulated. He hopes sincerely he said that with this new attitude the Corporation will accept his gift in the manner in which he makes...