HARVARD'S BLUNDER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 81, 30 December 1907, Page 4

HARVARD'S BLUNDER.

—■' Harvard University has a British sub ject—Professor William. Henry Schoficld—l<* represent the Unit-ed States this winter i, 1 ii - tho Kaiser's pot project. for a Gormait American intellectual "entente." When Mr. Scholield, at tho conclusion of a masterly inaugural address at tho University, of Berlin was formally welcomed jbj- f tho Croivn Princo on behalf; of tho Kaiser, few were in tlie secret that the young, smooth-faced, scholar is a nativo of Canada j' a graduate of-Toronto University, and a - loyal subject \ . While, nobody questions Mr. Schoficld's eminent capacity, intense indignation,provails in responsible quarters in Berlin'that Harvard should have had tho want ~of tact to send any but an Ainorican. to. ( intorpret tho Kaiser's idea of founding a "professorial exchange" for tho * intbrchungo of German and American thought, and learning respectively by means of Gorman and • American professors;. : Tho delicious irony of harvard's blunder, of course, lies in tho.fatt that tho intellectual ontonte was an integral part of the Kaiser's "American policy."'. What his Majesty will say to Harvard;'where he intended to semi one of his sons,'when': ho 1 learns that a British scholar was the' best> man who could be found for facilitating' the "entente," can bo imagined by anybody who knows the Emperor's capacity for i\nnoy>iftce whore some of his hobbies are'mvolvetf. Mr. Schoficld was born iri Ontario iri 1870, and lias boon a member of the Harvard faculty for 12 years. His wife ij nil.American. He will lecture at Berlin University .through tho winter on "English Literaturo'duriiig tne Middle Ages." , ;' •: <• •'A