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...second part of "Henry IV" by William Shakespere, has been chosen as the Delta Upsilon revival this year. This is the nineteenth annual production of the Delta Upsilon but only once before has Shakespere been represented. Usually the more unfamiliar works of the lesser Elizabethans have been reproduced, but this year a Shakesperian play has been settled upon, in honor of the tercentenary of the great playwright's death...
...difficult task must be undertaken; the wounds which cosmopolitanism has received from the world catastrophe must somehow be healed. Ever since the little meeting of Scandinavian students at Lund, Denmark, in 1842, farsighted university men have been dreaming of an international understanding. All through the second half of the nineteenth century and up to the fateful July of 1914 national and international conferences had been held all over the world to further a spirit which, if followed by governments as well as by individuals, might have saved much to the world. But then came the plunge--and it seemed...
...There can be no doubt that it is historically correct in so far as the founders of modern Prussia were, directly or indirectly, disciples of the Kantian philosophy. Not that Kant's views on politics and public affairs did in any specific manner shape Prussian legislation of the early nineteenth century; his views were too individualistic and too little concerned with national needs for that. Not Kant but the men who followed him--Stein, Hardenberg, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Fichte, and Hegel--have been official exponents, so to speak, of the mission of Prussia for a regenerated Germany...
...asserted, been a serious danger to the rest of the world. Rather have they been an element of weakness to Germany herself. They are not essentially different from the spirit of haughty masterfulness that characterized English foreign policies and English insular self-sufficiency throughout the larger part of the nineteenth century; or from the French belief in the superiority of France in all matters of higher civilization; or even from the American assumption that the United States is the foremost standard-bearer of international justice and righteousness. They are an impressive instance of that tragic national self-overestimation which seems...
Economics 23, Economic History of Europe from the Thirteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century, will be given by Asst. Professor N. S. B. Gras of Clark College. Wed., Fri., at 2.30, and a third hour at the pleasure of the instructor...