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NEILSON, MARSH, WOOLEY SUPPORT CONANT'S STAND

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Several New England, college presidents rallied yesterday to President Conant's support in his refusal of the $1000. scholarship offered by Ernst F. S. Hanfstaengl '09, Nazi press director. "Probably the same course other progressive American educators would have taken," said President Daniel L. Marsh of Boston University. President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke called it "a very broad, liberal, and courageous stand."

"I am in full sympathy with President Conant," said William Allan Nellson, president of Smith College and former professor of English at Harvard.

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