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...great hall of the University of Bonn one day last week, retiring Rector Ernst Friesenhahn stood before 1,000 students, professors and guests to say a few words about himself and his successor. "It seems symbolic to me," said he, "that a rector who was refused a teaching position by the Nazis in 1933 is succeeded by a rector who was dismissed by the Nazis in 1933." Thereupon, anti-Nazi Ernst Friesenhahn, who will return to teaching law, took off his crimson cap and gown, handed the symbols of his office to anti-Nazi Werner Richter...
...Imports. As rector, Werner Richter hopes to spread his "universal approach." The university he heads was once one of Germany's greatest-a place that boasted such great names as Historian von Treitschke and Physicist von Helmholtz, such alumni as Nietzsche and Carl Schurz. But like other German institutions, it had fallen into rigid habits -a narrow scholarship for narrow specialists...
...Last week, Germany got a second: Jewish Sociologist Max Horkheimer, who was elected rector of Frankfurt's Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. In 1933 the Nazis drove Horkheimer from the country, closed the famed Institute for Social Research which he had founded. This week, Rector Horkheimer, now a U.S. citizen, will have the pleasure of seeing his institute opened again...
...family turned their backs on her. Last year, after her husband died she met Ronald Awood, a truck driver, handsome, quiet, and colored. Sheila and Awood lived together. Then, with a child coming, they tried to get married. But Sheila's good friend, a white Anglican rector, was unable to marry them; the civil magistrate also refused. Reason: in 1949, Prime Minister Daniel Malan's government had passed a law prohibiting mixed marriages...
Aware of their ticklish position deep in Communist territory, students of the Free University sometimes wonder if their alma mater will be permitted to grow old enough for traditions of its own. Their worry is understandable, but their rector, Hans Freiherr von Kress, a professor of medicine, is letting it interfere with none of his plans. With their new finances, he and his staff are counting on a new building to include lecture halls, a desperately needed central library, and a student dining room. They are going to organize the first adult education program ever attempted in Germany...