FOREIGN SAVANTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23092, 18 July 1938, Page 6

FOREIGN SAVANTS

UNIVERSITY IN EXILE ACQUISITION TO AMERICA [from our own correspondent] NEW YORK, June 22 The University in Exile was founded four years ago by a national committee headed by the late Oliver Wendell Holmes, a member of the United States Supreme Court. It was staffed by members of the German faculty who had been driven from their country by the anti-Jewish and anti-Liberal etand of the Hitler Government. Students were graduated from this unique centre of learning early this month. During the "exercises ' it was officially announced that professors wno had been driven out of Austria by the Hitler regime would join the faculty next year. _ , The University in Exile now has a staff of 20 eminent teachers m the political and social sciences, who, because of race or liberal opinions, or both, found their careers cut short in Germany, or, in a few instances, in Italv. In four years 1268 students who in former times would have had to go abroad to find the specialised instruction they desired have studied in the University in Exile. - Professor Albert Einstein in faultloss English delivered an address at the graduation ceremonies of bwartnmore College, in which he voiced a condemnation of "barbansation of political ways in our time." He was assured that democracies would never surreiiae to dictatorships, but chided the United States on its isolationist policy.