Deutsches Haus

President Nicholas Murray ("Miracu lous") Butler, of Columbia University, whose "who" in Who's Who runs an entire column, last week stepped into a five-story house on West 117th Street, Manhattan, with young and elegant Baron von Prittwitz, German Ambassador to the U. S. With the Baron was the Baroness.

Following them was a group of distinguished professors and Manhattanites. Greetings were exchanged, a few speeches were delivered, everybody admired the ultra-modern German interior decorations. Thus was re opened Columbia's Deutsches Haus, founded in 1910 by Engineer & Financier Edward Dean Adams.

The money of the late Adolphus Busch of St. Louis and the late George Ehret of Manhattan poured freely in to establish Deutsches Haus. It was intended to be a focal point of German culture at Columbia and in Manhattan. But German culture, like Wagner operas at the Metro politan Opera House, disappeared from Manhattan during the War. Only last week did this last War-bred taboo disappear from Columbia.

Nicholas Murray Butler has been decorated by a half-dozen foreign countries. Internationally-minded, he sees the advantages, the necessity of internationally-minded education. He would not mind see ing in Columbia a university city like that in Paris where 15 countries will have dormitories to house their Paris students (TIME, Sept. 10). Already on 117th Street beside the Deutsches Haus are a Casa Italiana, a Maison Franchise.