When the time came last spring for Harvardman Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl to contribute toward the gift which every Harvard class makes to its Alma Mater at its 25th reunion, Adolf Hitler's rollicking piano player and shrewd Foreign Press Chief decided to make no anonymous gift. Instead he wrote to Harvard's president:
I have decided, as modest proof of my loyalty, to double the sum of my class subscription. I should like this donation of $1,000 to be known as the Dr. Hanfstaengl Scholarship.
This scholarship is to enable an outstanding Harvard student, preferably...
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