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16/ [[left margin in red]] Queer hair dressing [[/left margin in red]] was started in the U.S. but even went beyond. Their hair closely cropped till about 2 inch about the [[strikethrough]] airs [[/strikethrough]] ears, leaving a small patch of hair above the cranium which makes them look very foolish or as if they had plastered a miniature wig on top of their head. The [[red underline]] Corpstudenten [[/red underline]] with their colored caps, and colored band across their shirts are practically the only ones who affect more pretentious clothes. [[red underline]] Woodbridge [[/red underline]] tells me that in 1931 the [[red underline]] University was still more crowded [[/red underline]] but that about [[red underline]] 50% have discontinued on account of the business crises. [[/red underline]] [[left margin in red]] Hitler followers [[/left margin in red]] The Universities here are a hotbed for followers of [[red underline]] Hitler and his Nazis. [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] All [[/strikethrough]] The students look serious and intend to work with here and there some flirtations between them and student girls. [[red underline]] Some [[/red underline]] of the latter look rather [[red underline]] freakish. [[/red underline]] Nevertheless everything makes a good impression and decidedly more active than in my younger days. Some of the [[red underline]] lecture rooms are so crowded [[/red underline]] that many have to stand or sit on the sill of window. In others a ^[[narrow]] gallery has been built around the room near the ceiling. A busy [[strikethrough]] beahiv [[/strikethrough]] beehive! Lectures last about 40 minutes. The professor coming in about 15 min. past the hour and ceasing 5 minutes before end to sign the booklets carried by the students [[end page]] [[start page]] 17/ to mark their presence at the lecture. [[red underline]] Woodbridges lecture was delivered in slow German [[/red underline]] with occasionally a decided English pronunciation. His subject today was the philosophy of Berkeley and of Hume, and the theory of causality. There were about [[red underline]] 14 hearers present, and only 2 women. [[/red underline]] Several of them seemed to give scant attention to the subject, merely "serving time to have their presence recorded in their books. - After the lecture Woodbridge took me to the library and office of the [[red underline]] Amerika Institut [[/red underline]] which also represents [[red underline]] our Institute of International education [[/red underline]] and where I was known as one of its board of trustees. I noticed the portraits of several known Americans who had contributed money, such as [[red underline] ]Dr. Schurman, [[/red underline]] Kahn, [[red underline]] Sacket, (also Metz!) [[/red underline]] etc. [[left margin]] Harvard 1907. [[/left margin]] [[black and red underline]] Dr. Bertling, [[/black and red underline]] a German who studied at [[red underline]] Harvard [[/red underline]] and who wears a duel cut on his cheek is Director and knows very well [[strikethrough]] Duggan [[/strikethrough]] Dr. Duggan of the [[red underline]] Institute of International education. [[/red underline]] He was at the Bier-Abend of June 7 - 1932 at the Deutsche Gesellschaft Club in Berlin where I was invited with [[red underline]] Dr. Barrows, formerly President of the University of California. [[/red underline]] (See typewritten sheet with names of all the guests.) All spoke English but Dr. Darrow. Informal meeting at small tables of 4 or 5, sipping lager beer and
