Special Harvard Issue Reviewed

The Cosmopolitan Student is the monthly organ of the Corda Frata Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs. By an admirable arrangement each issue is superintended by one local university chapter after another. The list of distinguished contributors to the current number is creditable to the Harvard Cosmopolitan Club, and the articles, in interest and appropriateness, well represent the University. Even the most provincial reader may be attracted by some part of the number.

The articles are: "Roads toward Peace," by President-emeritus Charles W. Eliot; "International Understanding," by Hugo Muensterberg; "The East and the West in the Twentieth Century," by Professor M. Anesaki; "The Task of the Interpreter," by Professor Josiah Royce; and "University Ideals in England, Germany, and the United States," by Professor Francis G. Peabody. George W. Nasmyth, of the Harvard International Polity Club, in his talk "Above all Humanity are the Nations," reverses the ideal of the Club, and then pleads that the Cosmopolitan watchword is the expression of the fundamental social truth, "Above all Nations is Humanity." Louis P. Lochner describes a "Week-End Excursion to Paris;" and the customary editorial and news notes complete the number. There are several excellent illustrations, including President Eliot's picture, the John Harvard Statue, the College Yard (looking north from Grays Hall), and a group of members of the Harvard Cosmopolitan Club.

A few unimportant misprints are excusable in a periodical produced under the difficulties due to the distance between writer and printer. Proof-reading of English is not always as easy for foreign students in America as for most of us. At the end of the first sentence in Section III of Professor Royce's article, for instance, "experienced" must be for "expressed," that is,--"set forth in writing." Professor Royce has experienced the truth that tolerance and loyalty are of the same great motives, but here he is referring to the fact that he has stated that truth as a doctrine.

The copy can be procured at the Cambridge and Boston bookstores. It is a small but rewarding investment.