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...Heidelberg University was erected on a foundation of race persecution when, in 1386, Elector Rupert I of the Palatine seized from Heidelberg's Jews a group of dwellings to house his new Collegium Artistarum. Reversing its position three centuries later, Heidelberg offered sanctuary to a hounded Jew, celebrated Philosopher Baruch Spinoza. Last week Heidelberg's plans for its 550th birthday celebration in June went notably awry because sister institutions throughout the world believed that Heidelberg had taken up Jew-baiting once again, lost caste as a centre of intellectual liberality...
...Haven, Conn., March 4--Two days after stating Yale rarely dispatched delegates to anniversary celebrations, Carl A. Lehman, Yale publicity chief, announced yesterday that an officials representative would probably be sent to Heidelberg for its supposed 550th anniversary...
...Harvard has also asked individuals of worldwide scholastic renown to attend the Tercentenary Conference which will take place in the two weeks preceding the actual celebration. From Germany 12 such preeminent men were invited and all have accepted. It was thought that among them there was one professor from Heidelberg University, but as was the case with the other replies, University authorities were not certain yesterday...
...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...
...Heidelberg University is not the Nazi government; it is older than a hundred Nazi governments. Anyone who has travelled in Germany and talked with students, especially those of Heidelberg, knows that the Universities strongly resent the violations of their age-old privileges and liberties...