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PROF. MUENSTERBERG TO REMAIN

Resignation From Faculty Withdrawn at Request of Corporation.

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It is now officially announced that, at the instance of the Corporation Professor Muensterberg has withdrawn his resignation, and that the University cannot tolerate any suggestion that it would be willing to accept money to abridge free speech, to remove a professor, or to accept his resignation.

Last week the newspapers featured a story that Major Clarence Wiener '00, had threatened to cut out of his will a bequest of $10,000,000 to Harvard unless the connection of Professor Muensterberg with the University was severed at once. The reason for this action of Major Wiener's was found in the general tone of some of Professor Muensterberg's statements in which he spoke freely in defense of Germany. The decisive action of the Corporation in refusing to accept Major Weiner's offer was the first which has been officially taken in the matter.

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