Because the door donor was "too closely allied with a government which had interfered seriously with educational liberties," Harvard university has refused the $10,000 gift offered by Ernst Hanfstaengl, a Harvard alumnus and Nazi press chief. The gift was offered in response to a form letter sent out by the University to its alumni asking for assistance in the development of its national scholarships. This gift would make possible ten years of study at the University of Munich for American students. For the same reason, according to official announcements, the university administration last year refused a smaller gift from the same alumnus.

Liberalism and impartiality, so often asserted to be goals of education, are sacrificed by the administration of one of the nation's most prominent universities in this action which is unsupported by any arguments justifying the charges. The disapproval of the political affiliations of a former student voiced by these officials might conceivably cost society a valuable contribution made by an American student with the advantages of further training under the direction of the learned men of Germany. True education knows no barriers of nationality; scientists work together on common ground regardless of political creeds. --Indiana Daily Student. Feb. 25, 1936