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...Cape Cod Standard-Times...
From every U.S. county, from Cape Cod's cranberry bogs to California's orange groves, the Agriculture Department's busy farm agents mailed in their annual reports. They told a story of great fertility, great abundance. The land was still good. For all the mistakes unthinking men had visited on it, it was still good land, the best possession of a great nation. The reports told...
...deserted the physical field and turned to the intellectual type of criticism for the relief of its inferiority complex. A certain Hanoverian professor named Burns enlivened our day yesterday with his claims that Harvard is provincial; that Harvard's history staff is composed of a tight little Cambridge-Cape Cod set of Anglophiles; and that their influence is responsible for the woeful lack of knowledge of the American people at large about Mexico, Canada, and Russia...
...validity of Professor Burns' factual details concerning his Cambridge rivals is open to more than a small bit of doubt. The History Department, singly and collectively, denies any connection with Cape Cod and an unofficial poll reveals a Squam Lake-ish tendency rather than a Barnstable County...
Burns, in a speech at a conference of the New Jersey Educational Association said that American history books are "so provincialized by a dominant school of Harvard historians, who live in Cambridge in the winter and Cape Cod in the summer, that millions of Americans are practically entirely ignorant of other countries...