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...bottom the only ground for mutual understanding must be intellectual; and to the failure to appreciate this fact must be attributed the slow growth of Pan-Americanism in the wider sense. Most Americans have never even considered the possibility of the existence of large and influential universities in the South. As Professor Lima says in an interview which the CRIMSON prints today, the intercourse of the southern universities has been almost exclusively with the institutions of Europe. America has gone her own way in ignorance of and indifference to the intellectual and economic growth of South America. Harvard has already...
...greater numbers. One important effect of the war is expected to be the freeling of America from the intellectual domination of European scholarship. Another result should be an increased number of students in the universities of a land unhampered by the hardships of a reconstruction. All this means a wider influence for American thought; it should also mean a broader view for the American student toward the ideas of other races...
Among the resolutions for the New Year the undergraduate might well resolve to take a greater and wider interest in the affairs of the time. Europe begins another year of blood; the United States enters upon another election year to determine issues which may affect the world's destiny; men are struggling to behold an era of progress emerge from the present chaos...
...formation of the Battalion at Harvard may not have much military value. It is, however, all that many men are able to contribute. The significance of the undertaking is wider and more fundamental than the actual material profit that can be expected; it is the public expression of the patriotism and responsibility which one thousand educated men at Harvard University feel for their country. As such the Harvard Battalion deserves the support not only of every man in the University but of every patriotic American. WESTMORE WILLCOX...
...most instructive discussion of Militarism from the viewpoint of a soldier apeared in the Infantry Journal for November, 1910. Reprints of this may be secured from the War Department. The object of the writer, Captain Crawford, is to induce a wider intelligent discussion of the subject. A more modest aim, fit to be suggested here, is that before anyone discuss Militarism, in or out of print, he learn something of both sides of the question, and not permit hones for the future cause him to neglect to even consider present day problems. AN AMATBUR SOLDIER...