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...rashes), a three-week course of Anthallan capsules. Forty of the patients were relieved of 25% to 100% of their misery for as long as eight months after treatment. The drug was developed, after 25 years of experiment, by Pharmacologist Walter S. Loewe, who came to the U.S. from Heidelberg in 1934, now teaches at the University of Utah...
...which attempts to substitute propaganda for science and mob emotion for disciplined thought: a revolution which would, if it could, grind Harvard with Yale and Princeton and Chicago and Pennsylvania and Stanford and the rest into the rubbish which was once the University of Prague and the University of Heidelberg and the University of Bonn...
When the G.I.s took over Germany, they closed Heidelberg, Germany's oldest and most famed university. It was a sorry parody of itself-and had been for ten years. When, in 1936, educators from 32 nations went to Germany to pay their respects on Heidelberg's 550th birthday, they found themselves officiating at a wake. The Student Prince atmosphere of Heidelberg, the beer mugs, the sabers and the sashes were gone. SS uniforms and swastika flags had displaced them...
...silence the assembly listened as a Heidelberg professor, Nazi Ernst Krieck, shouted: "We do not recognize or know truth for truth's sake or science for science's sake." Some recalled a letter which had once beckoned Spinoza to his chair at Heidelberg, it read: "You will have the utmost freedom of philosophizing...
Last week, after a thorough housecleaning by the U.S., Heidelberg reopened. The new rector, a professor of surgery before the war, 55-year-old Karl Heinrich Bauer, told his audience of German students and U.S. generals: "Without tolerance there is no democracy, and without democracy no German future...