Word: maccracken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Henry MacCracken, president of Vassar, spoke at Chautauqua: " One of the greatest tragedies of the world is the growing wrath against the Jews in European Universities. I pray God it may not extend to our American universities...
Having toured Central Europe with stops at 25 universities, President MacCracken concluded that " the most outspoken advocates of extreme nationalism were to be found among university professors and students." He finds at home " extreme tendencies toward nationalistic reserve and chauvinistic isolation " in the same quarter, and utters a warning against " the false gospel of Nordic superiority, against inaccurate assumptions derived from army psychological tests and investigation of mentality of school children, that people from the South of Europe are intellectually inferior to the people from the North; against the eugenists who, on insufficient evidence, are uttering ridiculous cries of terror...
President MacCracken of Vassal-questions the accuracy of observations as to conditions in the College made by Messrs. Ford and Edison. He told members of the class of 1923 that the opinions of both gentlemen, while important in their own fields, had little significance outside those narrow limits...
John Henry MacCracken, Pres., Lafayette College...
...Vassar Freshmen won the first Vassar-Harvard debate ever held last Saturday evening at Poughkeepsie by a vote of 287 to 131. The audience, almost wholly composed of Vassar students, did the voting. President H. N. MacCracken of Vassar presided...