Great History Chance

With Harvard University students representing 47 states in this country and 27 foreign lands, if the 4,724 students could all come in touch with each other on a basis of mutual sympathy and inquiry, what an educational advantage there would be in this cosmopolitanism! As a matter of fact, however, the mass of the students are as blissfully unmindful that their fellow students are lessons in geography and history and sociology as the mass of the people in this city are unheeding of what they could learn from their fellow-residents from other sections of the globe, if they set out to incorporate within their own consciousness the knowledge and experience of those others as to foreign lands. History at first hand is a pretty thrilling affair, even though it may be a bit warped and twisted and prejudiced. A college with 28 straight nationalities and an additional lot of hyphenates ought to be as good as place to cultivate the spirit of world unity as a city with representatives from 33 nations among its population. And yet in neither place is there any deliberate attempt to compass that aim. It is an end missed through lack of the larger outlook upon the higher life. New Bedford Standard.