Harvard Preferred Hiring Its Own Faculty, Not Paid by Government

"The fact that Harvard did not receive its share of the German exiles who were appointed to positions in various colleges throughout America by the emergency committee, is not in any way a reflection of our attitude toward these scholars, but rather, I would assume, an indication of Harvard's preference to choose those whom it wanted on its faculty," said Carl J. Friedrich, Associate Professor of Government, in a CRIMSON interview last night. "Harvard's willingness to pay their salaries instead of asking the committee to do so is ample evidence of this preference. Obviously the College values its right to control the personnel of its faculty more highly than receiving the gratuitous services of men whom it may not want.

"The future of any of these exiled German scholars is far from certain, and I am particularly concerned about the prospects for the younger men, whose reputations are not so well founded, and who will, therefore, have greater difficulty in securing positions.

"Those of the Germans who are teaching in the University of Exiles, have told me that they would prefer positions at larger universities, where they would receive valuable experience and be in less precarious positions. I would suggest that the more capable scholars be divided in small groups among the big universities all over the country, rather than in larger groups among a small number of colleges, in order that the future of these men be made more secure."