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Professor Hocking has been on the Harvard faculty since 1914. He graduated from Harvard in 1901, and received his Ph.D. in 1904; in 1902-03 he was Harvard Fellow in the Universities of Gottingen, Berlin, and Heidelberg. He has taught at the Universities of California, Princeton, and Yale, and since 1920 has been Alford Professor here...
...Massachusetts, President Mark Hopkins of Williams, Senator George F, Hoar, George William Curtis, Alexander Agassiz, Asaph Hall, Samuel P. Langley, and J. Ingersoll Bowditch. President Eliot, of course, presided at most of the sessions. Delegated brought greetings from many American institutions and from the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh and Heidelberg...
Frantically popular is Adolf Hitler with millions of Germans but not with the aristocratic Student Korps. These correspond at German universities to the superior English youths who have been to Eton. Last week a proud array of Old Heidelberg's primest campus snobs, the Saxo-Borussian Korps, trembled before a State prosecutor who charged them with the following high misdemeanors...
...Saxo-Borussians should have been listening to the nationwide broadcast of Adolf Hitler's speech to the German Reichstag, they gave a champagne initiation banquet. Secondly, while the Realmleader was still uttering his two-hour discourse, they left their Korps house, proceeded with levity through the streets of Heidelberg and noisily entered a restaurant full of devout listeners to the broadcast, one Saxo-Borussian pretending to use a champagne bottle as a trumpet. Thirdly, the Saxo-Borussians, amid much loud discussion, made a distinction between the correct way of eating asparagus and Adolf Hitler's way of eating...
These acts, according to the prosecutor, infringed the Saxo-Borussians' obligations toward the German people and the University of Heidelberg. Accordingly all Saxo-Borussians were ordered set back two years in their studies at Old Heidelberg, with expulsion for the ringleader who incited others to disparage Dictator Hitler's handling of asparagus...