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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...
...moral, President MacCracken announced that " above all, education for international good-will must rest upon the study of international law." He did not state where this form of law was to be found...
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...