AMERICA COMES OF AGE

The late war has left many scars in international feeling that are at last being healed by the processes of time as is indicated by the increasing number of students and professors exchanged between this country and Germany. The restrictions induced by a lack of a sufficient quota of foreign fellowships and scholarships, however, presents an impediment to this bond of mutual relations which is becoming more keenly felt. Dr. Adolf Morsback, director of the German Academic Exchange Service, indicates in his recent report that unless more money is devoted to this purpose it will soon reach the limit of its benefits.

The mere fact that the scholars of the United States and Germany are willing to become a part of this movement proves that the effects of war propaganda have died out in the educated classes. Now that the number of exchanged students has reached an appreciable size, there are not sufficient funds to increase the fellowships and scholarships to the point that is necessary if the project is to progress. If the present tendency of giving money to educational institutions were given a broader scope, and extended to this field of intercourse with foreign students, a more equitable basis of relations between the United States and Germany could be completely realized. There would be a sounder mutual understanding of national characteristics which would reduce the friction arising from lack of sympathy. The former unreasoning dislike for Teutonic culture which was so prevalent during the World War has obviously died out, and the unfortunate hysteria of America of 1920 has been cured by common sense.