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IN the issue of February 22, under the above heading, a correspondent writes that a visitor to Heidelberg on June 30 of this year may celebrate the events associated with that day (familiarly known as the clean up) simultaneously with the 550th anniversary of the foundation of the University. He has, however, fallen into the same error as the Rector and Senate of Germany's most ancient seat of learning. June 30, 1936, is the anniversary of the clean up which established more firmly the present dictatorship in the German Reich and its dependant universities, but the academic year 1935–36 is not the 550th but the 549th from the foundation of the University of Heidelberg.
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GARDINER, M. Heidelberg, Spinoza and Academic Freedom. Nature 137, 364 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137364a0
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