editorial in today’s issue, and represented the one public disapproval of the Harvard Corporation’s action in scorning the Nazis bearing gifts. Elsewhere on the campus, which was agog with excitement for days when Hanfstaengl attended his class’s twenty-fifth graduation anniversary last June, widespread approval of the Corporation’s gesture was evident.
“That politics should prevent a Harvard student from enjoying an opportunity for research in one of the world’s greatest cultural cities is most unfortunate,” The Crimson deplored, “and scarcely in line with the liberal tradition of which Harvard is pardonably proud.”
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