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George D. Birkoff '05, Perkins Professor of Mathematics, has been chosen as the Harvard representative at Heidelberg's 550th anniversary celebration by President Conant...
...primary purpose of Dean Birkoff's European trip this summer is to speak at the Oslo International Mathematics Congress which opens on July 13, and he will probably not spend more than a few days at Heidelberg. He will not lecture there, his official function being merely to extend Harvard greetings...
Indispensable to any high academic ceremony are the red doctoral hoods of Oxford. To Oxford, therefore, Heidelberg's Rector Magnificus Wilhelm Groh last month sent an invitation for the June birthday festival. Immediately a storm burst in the British Press. Indignantly the Manchester Guardian pointed to a list of 44 potent professors who had been cast out by Heidelberg for racial and political causes. To the London Times the philosophical Bishop of Durham gravely wrote: "It cannot be right that the universities of Great Britain, which we treasure as the very citadels of sound learning ... the vigilant guardians...
Last week Rector Groh's invitations had reached the U. S. Officially Cornell, Columbia, Harvard accepted without controversy. But the Heidelberg invitations soon raised a full-sized rumpus among undergraduates, alumni, faculty members. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia, cruising in the Caribbean, heard that liberal students were up in arms against Columbia's acceptance. In the Cornell Sim Historian Hendrik Willem Van Loon, "a 101% Aryan," looked into his Alma Mater's past, doubted "that Hitler's bright boys would care to associate with representatives of a university founded by that eminently broad-minded Quaker...
Harvard's President James Bryant Conant has twice refused to accept scholarships from Alumnus Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl, Dictator Hitler's pressagent and musical solace. But last week President Conant wrote to Rector Groh: "The President and Fellows, in accepting the invitation of the University of Heidelberg, recognize the ancient ties by which the universities of the world are united and which are independent of the political conditions existing in any country at any particular time...