All was quiet on the Columbia campus yesterday following the clash between the members of the Columbia World Problems Club and a visiting group of Nazi physical training teachers, which took place Tuesday afternoon in front of the library at Columbia University.
The conflict resulted when the students heard that forty German physical training teachers were being received in the trustee room of the University and were about to be shown around the new library at 116th street. As the teachers filed out of this room they were met by the students bearing various anti-fascist banners that had been hastily improvised.
The German group was under the leadership of G. G. Palma of the Hamburg American Line, Henry H. Schulze, Assistant Professor of German and Otto P. Schinner, Instructor of German at the University. One member of the group who was dressed in clerical garb, shouted “These are Jews and they are against us.”
The students followed the German delegation to the new library resisting attempts made by the teachers to tear down the offending banners. When Superintendent of Grounds Wright threatened to, and finally did, call the police, the Nazi group dispersed leaving the jubilant students to claim the victory.
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