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...unfortunate, I believe, to see such an eminent historian as Professor Langer, fall below his usual standard of clear-thinking in his recent article on "The Revival of Imperialism" appearing in the March Issue of the "Harvard Guardian". Professor Langer says, that "it has been shown over and over again and proved to the hilt with statistics that colonies are not a paying proposition." Does Professor Langer or anybody else suppose that colonies would be sought, and when acquired, maintained, if they were NOT paying propositions? Does anybody hang on to a hot potato, if it is burning his hand...
Another thing; I believe that Professor Langer, by applying the 1898 concept of "Imperialism" to modern Italy, is grossly misleading. I don't believe it is imperialism at all that we are witnessing in the Italy of today. It is something quite different; and the correct description of what is might be "The Revival of Idealism". Mussolini and Italy are closer to Napoleon and the French Revolution. We are witnessing, in Italy's African campaigns, the first adventure of the Myth State, which has really as its basis, not the quest for raw materials, as was so in the imperialism...
William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History, will discuss various aspects of the European situation in the Eliot House Junior Common Room tonight at 7:30 o'clock...
Plans for the first issue are now under way. There will be an article by Professor William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History, but the magazine will have a preponderance of undergraduate contributions. It will be the policy of the board to insist that "all material be presented in a dignified manner, that it be readable, and that it represent honest scholarly work...
...History receives no such gradual initiation into his field. A concentrator in medieval history may graduate from the broad survey of History 1 into a small sector like History 22, the History of France to 1461. Medieval History needs a middle course on Continental Europe patterned after Professor Langer's course. It should also embrace Germany--now untouched by the specialized courses on Medieval Europe. The courses in Early Modern History are also in urgent need or revision. Only a person gifted with indefatigble energy and a sense of humour could get a good knowledge of this field. He would...