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Carl Joachim Friedrich, associate professor of Government has been appointed guest professor on the faculty of Law at the University of Heidelberg, for the summer of 1933. At the recent meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, Professor Friedrich was granted a leave of absence for next summer in order that he may accept the guest professorship. Professor Friedrich's lectures will deal with, political theory and public law. It is announced that he will resume his duties at Harvard in the autumn...
...Banjo Club, under the direction of J. M. Bradley '33, will play the "Twelfth Street Rag," "Under the Double Eagle," and "At a Georgia Camp Meeting." The Vocal Club, under the leadership of S. H. Stackpole '33, will present "Going Home," "Johnny Harvard," "Old Heidelberg," and the finale from the operetta "The Gondoliers." The Gold Coast Orchestra with J. L. Hutter '33 leading will play a Victor Herbert medley, a medley from "Show Boat" and "Mood Indigo" and "Black and Tan Fantasy." This orchestra will play for dancing afterwards. The Mandolin Club will also play and present specialty numbers...
Gumbel. The Nazis had one victory for the week. After weeks of angry protest, Fascist students at Heidelberg succeeded in having tall, stoop-shouldered Professor Emil J. Gumbel dropped from the faculty. His crime according to the Nazis was that he had announced in a lecture: "A turnip is better than a war memorial, than a statue adorned by scantily clad ladies.'' Professor Gumbel heard the news at Cornell last week where he was attending the International Congress of Genetics (see p. 21). He was not surprised...
Another consternating item of last week's news was the summary discharge of Emil Gumbel, statistician visiting the Genetics Congress, from his professorship in the University of Heidelberg. The reported reason: he had offended Heidelberg's patriotic sentiment by declaring that "a turnip is better than a war monument, than a statue adorned by scantily clad ladies." Professor Gumbel denied saying this...
...Earth are planetoids, the gleaming flecks of solar matter which revolve around the Sun mostly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. One of the objects was discovered in March by Astronomer E. Delporte of Belgium's Royal Observatory,* the other in April by Dr. Karl Reinmuth of Heidelberg. They might have been planetoids, tailless comets, or, wonderfully, new moons of the Earth...