MADRID UNIVERSITY.
PROTEST AGAINST CLOSING.
DE RIVERA REMAINS FIRM
(Received April 3, 11.5 p.m.) Times Cable. LONDON. April 3. Tho Madrid correspondent of the Times reports that General Primo de Rivera has rejected an appeal by Professor Ramon Pidal, president of the Spanish Royal Academy, for the repeal of the Royal decree closing tho University of Madrid for 18 months and dismissing tho Chancellor.
Professor Pidal, who is also Professor of Literature in the university, has sent a letter to General do Rivera in which he asserts that tho decree is irreparably harming Spanish intellectual life. "Surely it cannot be the intention of the Government," lie says, "to humiliate a national institution."
General do Rivera replied stating that lu considered the decree to be justified, lie said "scientific progress will benefit if tho university learns to remain neutral when Government measures are in ques tion."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20221, 4 April 1929, Page 9
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