Word: magnificus
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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Indispensable to any high academic ceremony are the red doctoral hoods of Oxford. To Oxford, therefore, Heidelberg's Rector Magnificus Wilhelm Groh last month sent an invitation for the June birthday festival. Immediately a storm burst in the British Press. Indignantly the Manchester Guardian pointed to a list of 44 potent professors who had been cast out by Heidelberg for racial and political causes. To the London Times the philosophical Bishop of Durham gravely wrote: "It cannot be right that the universities of Great Britain, which we treasure as the very citadels of sound learning ... the vigilant guardians...
...itself. Famed Classicist Gilbert Murray summed up the opinion of many a don: "Perfectly monstrous!" Last week Oxford with graceful malice planned to send to Germany not a delegate but an address "extolling the greatness of German learning in the past." Hopping mad when only Cambridge accepted, Rector Magnificus Groh belatedly withdrew the rest of his British invitations...
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