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...Haven, Conn,--Yale University authorities admitted last night that they had received an invitation to participate in the celebration of Heidelberg's 550th Anniversary. When questioned on the matter, Carl Lohmann, Secretary of the University said. "We get dozens of bids to such gatherings and we rarely over send an official representative. We will decide on the matter in May or June...
President Conant last night issued a statement accepting the invitation to attend the 550th Anniversary of Heidelberg University. Whether Heidelberg has yet replied to Harvard's invitation to participate in the Tercentenary celebration and if so whether the reply was an acceptance or refusal, Harvard authorities were unable to tell last night although replies have been coming in for two weeks from universities all over the world...
...statement of acceptance came shortly after the Corporation meeting and is as follows: "Harvard University plans to appoint a delegate to the 550th Anniversary of the Founding of the University of Heidelberg. 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...
...Heidelberg terms the occasion the 550th birthday of the University, but according to "Nature", authoritative British scientific journal, this spring will not be the 550 anniversary but the 549th. "Nature" bases its calculations on the charter in the British Museum, which was issued by Pope Urban VI on October 23, 1385. Unless this original source is misleading, the celebration will be one year less than the five and a half century mark...
...dates June 27 to 30 inclusive have nothing to do with the history of Heidelberg, says "Nature", and explanation for this choice lies in the fact that this is the anniversary of the Nazi purge in 1934. Since 1933, 44 professors have been dismissed from Heidelberg by the National Socialist Party on grounds of race, religion or politics