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...Federation sent delegates to the recent meeting of the New England Federation at Harford, where the plan was enthusiastically received. Steps have already been taken to connect graduates all over the country with the University through the territorial clubs...
...been given at Harvard during the past two years will be continued this winter under the title of "Social Problems." The lectures will be under the auspices of the same committee of professors which has previously secured speakers to talk at the University in an effort to more closely connect Harvard with the social and political issues...
...second and third floors will be utilized respectively for additional library facilities and several private dining rooms. A more imposing addition will be the construction of a large dining-room, two stories in height, extending from the first to the third floors, which will connect with the present Harvard Hall...
...patriotic view that already belongs to the past" he ascribes partly to the idea with which the nation has grown up--namely, "that it is an English nation, and the immigrants who come from other countries are useful fellow-workers and desirable guests, but no ties of kinship connect the countries with the American nation." This he describes as an " artificial construction based on an untenable illusion...
There is a new feeling of pride springing up in a mixed ancestry, and with this new attitude of the majority, a fundamental revision of the antiquated national theory is necessarily demanded. "The ties of kinship do not connect this country with England more than with Ireland, or Holland, or Sweden." Professor Muensterberg sees, as the outcome of the situation, a unique nation issuing from the "melting-pot" in which the finest qualities of all Europe will be blended, and in which will live a new patriotism "which will not know host or guests among the citizens of this country...