Word: heidelberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within a few months of each other, two universities celebrated important anniversaries. Harvard was 300 years old-Heidelberg...
Harvard's tercentenary was an occasion for pride in the accomplishments of a great center of learning. Heidelberg's anniversary celebration was a mockery of learning and an object lesson in oppression...
...opening sessions of Heidelberg's festivities, those who attended were told that "The new science is entirely different from the idea of knowledge that found its value in an unchecked effort to reach the truth. The true freedom of science is to be an organ of a nation's living strength and of its historic fate and to present this in obedience to the law of truth...
This statement of ideals is exactly opposed to the theory of learning under which both Heidelberg and Harvard became great universities...
Burke, president of his class, was expelled for speaking at an outdoor meeting last May called by the American Student Union as an act of protest against Columbia's sending of a delegate to the celebration at Heidelberg University...