Cinder

Two years ago inquisitive Edward Yarnall Hartshorne, a young graduate student at the University of Chicago, went to Germany to see what had happened to higher education under Adolf Hitler. He asked so many questions that when he returned to the U. S., the Nazi Foreign Office kept an eye on him. Last week he planted a cinder in that eye when the University of Chicago issued his thoroughly documented report on Nazi higher education. Highlights of Dr. Hartshorne's inventory:

P: In the first two years of Nazi rule, enrollment in German universities dropped from 117,682 to 85,023.

P: 1,684 professors were dismissed, 896 for being Jewish, Protestant, Catholic or "politically unreliable," the rest for reasons unknown.

P: "The changing of face becomes a daily routine. . . . Only in the quiet of the family circle and among close friends, and even then with an occasional nervous glance over his shoulder (a movement so typical that it has been cynically dubbed 'the German glance,' 'der deutsche Blick'), only here does the harassed university teacher drop the mask--if he is able to."

P: The speculative sciences, once the glory of German universities, are disappearing from the curriculum. In their place, pseudo-scientific courses in race culture predominate.

P: Today the rector of the famed University of Berlin is a horse doctor who was formerly an official in a slaughterhouse.

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