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...among undergraduates and alumni an intelligent interest and participation in the work of foreign missions and to secure men for positions in other countries." An effort has been made this year to make up a list of available positions abroad for men interested in foreign missionary work of every sort, as well as to compile a list of all men in the University who are interested in this work, and to arouse the missionary interest of Harvard men in all possible ways...
...that Harvard should wish to be one of these latter colleges; it is equipped to offer that service, and by limiting itself to those who can best profit thereby, it will avoid wastage through conflict with the institutions which prefer to remain open to all. A limitation of that sort is perhaps "aristocratic", but it is the sort of aristocracy to which no one can object. It will put a premium on good minds...
Germany bitterly resists the invasion of her coal fields, but not, apparently, of her studios. The younger painters still follow the lead of Paris modernists, in spite of propaganda and the mutter of the Ruhr. According to foreign critics, German art today is French. But art of any sort exists with difficulty in Berlin. Statistics recently published show that nine-tenths of the painters and sculptors face starvation. The situation has reached a crisis-which the government ignores. The only help, thus far, has come from America. Munich and Vienna duplicate Berlin. Hundreds of German and Austrian artists have already...
...probably true that the best sort of a novel of detectives and murder should have no love interest, but in this case it seems little out of place, and indeed, with the surprising tensity of the rest, some diversion is necessary. With two murders, two or three attempted murders, forgery and theft, much is needed to relieve the strain. The humor, such as it is, however, might better have been left out entirely...
...American states faded when only four delegates appeared at his first conference in 1826. The notion persisted, however, and inspired the first American International conference called by the United States fifty years later. That and succeeding conferences failed alike to produce a union, and probably nothing definite of that sort will result from the fifth Pan-American Conference, now in session at Santiago...