KAISERS SON AND HARVARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13491, 18 May 1907, Page 5 (Supplement)

KAISERS SON AND HARVARD.

The Kaiser's decision to send his fifth son, Prince Oscar of Prussia, to Harvard University is a continuation of His Majesty's "American policy," which began with the despatching of his brother, Prince Henry, the admiral, to the United States in 1902, and which has been kept up meantime by a series of compliments, such as the donation of statues, the buying of American yachts, the exchange of professors between German and American universities, and the conspicuous hospitality to distinguished ! American visitors.

Nothing definite as to Prince Oscar's plans for going to Harvard is so far known at the German Foreign Office or the American Embassy in Berlin, The Kaiser first expressed , his intention of educating one of his sons at Harvard at a dinner at the American, Embassy in 1906. He at that time had. in his mind his fourth son. Prince August Wilhelm, but as the latter has since become engaged to be married, the Kaiser apparently decided that Prince Oscar, who is nineteen next July, should be the one to receive the advantage of a thoroughly democratic university training. - It is probable that the Prince, accompanied by a military adjutant, will go to. America in time for the opening of the next college year in September. He is now an undergraduate at the University of Bonn.

Two facts determined the Emperor in choosing Harvard —first, it is the AlmaMater of President Roosevelt and the American Ambassador in Berlin, Mr. Charlemange Tower, who it extremely papular at the German Court; and, secondly, it is the American university which specialises in German subjects. At Harvard is also the well-known German professor, Hugo Muensterberg, who is accredited to America as a sort of unofficial Ambassador. Harvard is, further, the seat of that small American cult which opposes the Monroe doctrine. The Kaiser : is said to be anxious that one of his bovs should grow up with one of Mr. Roosevelt's sons. If Prince Oscar enters Harvard in September, he will have the President's eldest son, Theodore, as a college mate, while Mr. Roosevelt's second eon, Kermit, may enter the universitv at the same time. It Is announced that Professor Burgess, of Columbia University, late "Roosevelt Professor" at the University of Berlin, will during the coming summer give a special series of lecturer at Bonn on American constitutional history for the benefit of Prince August Wilhelm, the Kaiser's fourth son.