Oxford University has joined other important British universities in refusing to send a delegate to the Goettingen (Germany) University bicentenary celebration.
Chancellor Alexander Lindsay was said to have warned the council that participation in the celebration would be interpreted by many as approval of the suppression of free scholarship by the Nazi regime.
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