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...Stephen Norwood, a professor of history and Judaic studies at the University of Oklahoma, presented evidence yesterday that a high-ranking Nazi officer was offered an honorary position at his 25th Harvard reunion, that crew members of a Nazi naval ship were invited to a reception benefiting Phillips Brooks House and that the University recognized the 550th anniversary of the University of Heidelberg, a German institution purged of Jewish professors. Norwood also cited Crimson editorials as evidence of anti-Semitism within the Harvard student body...
...truly shameful that administrators, alumni and student leaders of America’s most prominent university, who were in a position to influence public opinion at a critical time, remained indifferent to Germany’s terrorist persecution against the Jews,” Norwood said at a conference at Boston University sponsored by the David Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies...
...talk, Norwood presented research culled from an upcoming book on American academia’s response to the rise of Nazism. Norwood claimed that Harvard faculty, student leaders and top administrators ignored news reports of systematic persecution in Nazi Germany, instead tacitly condoning anti-Semitic viewpoints that were “pervasive” in American society at the time...
...Norwood aimed much of his criticism at former President Conant, who is credited today for the shift towards meritocracy in American higher education, and particularly with instituting...
Collins went to Norwood High School, and attended college at Holy Cross University in Worcester...