CHARITY BEINGS AT MUNICH

Dr. Hanfstaengl is performing a valuable service in scotching several misconceptions concerning his past charities to this university. The Crimson and all others who have in the past been ignorant of his $1500 contribution to the 1909 class fund regret that the well-calculated fanfare accompanying his recent scholarship offer has drowned out the more welcome generosity of former times.

The dilemma Dr. Hanfstaengl finds himself in looks curiously like another concoction for publicity purposes. To make an issue of President Conant's accepting the reunion donation of the Class of 1909, to which the Nazi press chief had contributed, is mercly an attempt to fight back at Harvard for its refusal to accept his scholarship to the University of Munich. The class donation was a completely impersonal affair as far as President Conant was concerned, and the decision as to who was to contribute to it was up to the Class of 1909 alone. By no stretch of the imagination could the acceptance of this gift have bound the University's hand with regard to any future donation by an individual whose actions it did not approve.

"With or without President Conant," writes Hanfstaengl, he will send a Harvard graduate to the University of Munich next year. It is not too much to say that it will be "without President Conant". Any such unofficial philanthropy is purely the affair of Dr. Hanfstaengl and the graduate of the Class of 1936 who thinks he will gain from study at a German university.