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When the time came last spring for Harvardman Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl to contribute toward the gift which every Harvard class makes to its Alma Mater at its 25th reunion, Adolf Hitler's rollicking piano player and shrewd Foreign Press Chief decided to make no anonymous gift. Instead he wrote to Harvard's president...
...Haven, Oct. 5--Quickly rallying to President Angell's support, the Yale Daily News in an editorial today backed the University's plans to welcome the Italian students tomorrow, and as evidence in support of its opinion cited President Conant's hospitality to Ernst F. S. Hanfstaengl last June. The editorial, which followed an open protest by the National Student League against any official welcome for the visitors also favored Mr. Conant's refusal to accept the Nazi's scholarship gift...
...Conant has a strong case for refusing Mr. Hanfstaengl's gift, for the gift connotes his support, and the acceptance of support is an acknowledgement of complete sympathy and friendliness....That the distinction is a wide one between the refusal of hospitality and the refusal of the gift is evidenced by the hospitality extended by Harvard last spring to Mr. Hanfstaengl. It is highly probable that President Angell would have done the same as President Conant in refusing the preferred support. However, he is conscious of the inflexible obligations of hospitality. He is merely extending a courtesy to Fascist students...
Several New England, college presidents rallied yesterday to President Conant's support in his refusal of the $1000. scholarship offered by Ernst F. S. Hanfstaengl '09, Nazi press director. "Probably the same course other progressive American educators would have taken," said President Daniel L. Marsh of Boston University. President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke called it "a very broad, liberal, and courageous stand...
That political theories should prevent a Harvard student from enjoying an opportunity for research in one of the world's greatest cultural centers is most unfortunate, and scarcely in line with the liberal traditions of which Harvard is pardonably proud. Other considerations aside, whatever the decision of the Corporation, Hanfstaengl's offer was a friendly gesture, and it is regrettable that the Corporation could not have treated it as such, answering it in the spirit in which it was given...