HISTORY ON THE MARCH

There has long been a feeling that the departments of Economics, Government, and History in order to fulfill completely their purpose should offer at least one course in current events and current problems. Empire, decay, and revolution, the clash of arms, the fall of thrones, are apt to assume the color of recollection only, a reminiscent haze of things past, untouched by any parallel with these soberer days. To view the past through the small end of the telescope, through the present, would be a refreshing aid in the drive for historical proportion.

Although there are courses in Contemporary literature there are none in Contemporary events. Surely, few in the departments of Economics, Government, and History are not interested in that vital history now on the march. Surely, in one course at least, the history of the past could be made the corollary of an avowed intensive study of the present. To trace back the causes of present events to authoritative sources in the past is, after all, only traversing the same corridor in an opposite direction, backed by the impetus of living data.