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...Emerson 211. At 11 o'clock either he will hear a stimulating lecture by Professor Bixler in Emerson A or journey over to the Fogg Large Room to hear Professor Chase on Greek Art. At 12 o'clock the Vagabond will surely go to Harvard 6 to hear Professor Langer. This morning the Old Fellow promises a rich treat with any of the gentlemen mentioned above. And so away...
...their wives, and parents of the members of the Committee have been invite to dine with Professor and Mrs. Merriman at the Master's Lodgings. They included Professor and Mrs. Thomas Barbour, Professor and Mrs. George D. Birkhoff, Professor and Mrs. Walter B. Cannon, Professor and Mrs. William Langer, Professors Ferland Baldensperger, Theodore Lyman, Arthur Darby Nock, Fred N. Robinson, Professor and Mrs. Zachariah Chafee, Jr., Professor and Mrs. Arthur N. Holcombe, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Brooks, and Mr. and Mrs. John M. Hartwell...
...clock--Professor Langer: "Revolution of 1848 in Hapsburg Dom." Harvard...
Perhaps the idea was that the meeting itself suggested a way out,--education, propaganda, "mobilization", speeches. Perhaps Professor Langer felt that "careful study and hard work" was really the only and all sufficient solution. Perhaps Mr. Villard felt that the abolition of J. P. Morgan and Co. really would have prevented our entry into the World War, and is the only solution for the future. Perhaps Mr. Baldwin, forgetting Russia's Red Army, and the lucky political impossibility of Socialism in America, really and sincerely felt Socialism was the answer...
Professor Langer spoke vigorously about his personal experiences and feelings during the last war, remarking that the sight of striken areas from which a terror-ridden civilian populace had to be evacuated made the ghastliness of war most apparant. Every man in his organization decided at the end of the war that he "would have nothing to do with war" in the future. The paradoxical rise and power of organizations like the American Legion he traced to psychological causes, such as the tendency to remember only the pleasant things, and to forget or gloss over the more horrible aspects...