AMERICANS RUSH, HURRY TOO MUCH, SAYS GOLDSCHMIDT

Even though I like to see the Harvard football team play, I should rather watch the crowds, for they are so interesting in their enthusiasm," said Professor Adolph Gold-schmidt who comes from the University of Berlin and is the first incumbent of the Kuno Francke Chair of German Art and Culture, in a discussion with a CRIMSON reporter last night.

Evidently Europeans, especially the students at universities, do not become very excited over Rugby games, the only thing which can compare with American football, as Professor Gold-schmidt stated. The well-known German lecturer looks upon the average American as being extremely energetic, in fact a little too energetic at times. "They rush around so much and never bother to rest and reflect," he remarked. "They want to see how many miles they can make in a day, they are striving for the very best and quickest method of doing things, and the American business man who is in the biggest hurry seems to be greatly respected. In Germany we look up to student type, the professor, rather than the business man. American ways and customs are penetrating into Europe more and more. I noticed that the last time I returned. It is not so good, though, this rushing, hurrying life; people are not happy."

Comments on New York

Professor Gold-schmidt spent a few days in New York just before he came to Cambridge. He was greatly interested in the new skyscrapers there. "I think the new buildings are very beautiful," he said, "but New York is not as interesting as it used to be. Before they started to build so many tall structures one could find a mediaeval type of architecture beside a towering sky scraper, but now they are all getting to be of the same kind, and the general appearance is rather monotonous. This seems to be the main difference between cities of the old and new world. American cities all look about the same, and are really rather dull. 'In Germany, on the other hand. I can find little examples of mediaeval art in most every town I visit, and there seem to be more interesting things to visit, museums, for example, which are the first objects of every artist's search."