On The Rack

The Atlantic Monthly

Harvard contributes the two leading articles in the "Atlantic Monthly" for October. W. Y. Elliott, head of the Department of Government, "a twentieth century son of the nineteenth century Liberals," points out in "This Economic Nationalism," that Dean Donham and J. M. Keynes have overlooked the drastic political and social results of the policy of isolation that they have been so strongly advocating. He warns us that we are headed for more unemployment if we attempt economic isolation without submitting to dictatorial methods. Because of Congressional "meddling" the economic nationalism of the past twelve years has led us to desire an even more drastic form of the same thing. The only way, Elliott says, for us to progress under this policy is to now submit to government control of domestic prices, the course the Roosevelt administration has mapped out.

Alice Hamilton, assistant professor in Industrial Medicine at the Medical School has just returned from Naziland. In "Hitler Speaks" she gives a good review of the leader's own book "Mein Kampf" which is to be published in this country soon. By illustration after illustration she shows how Hitler is shaping Germany to the mold of the political philosophy of his autobiography.

The Forum

Robert Billyer '14, assistant professor of English, speaks his mind boldly and passionately, in the fight for education as against the empty red-tape of degrees and requirements in the new Forum. Finding real education forgotten in an ordered chaos of scholarship he makes a plea for an ideal university which appears to combine the freedom of the Society of Fellows with the organization of a Rollins College. It will undoubtedly remain an idle tutor's dream, but the reforms which might be still injected into the records office and board-rooms of University Hall, can be read between the lines of this sane article. Surely there will come a time when men will leave Harvard knowing more than their grades on 1b miscellaneous examinations, and when the "Regulations Pertaining to College Studies" will be an extinct item prized by book-collectors.