Word: meyers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Second.--Stroke, Brown; 7, Meyer; 6, H. S. Middendorf; 5. Soucy; 4. Culbert; 3, Talcott; 2, Busk; bow, Whitmarsh; cox, Cameron...
...anyone else's he at least courts satirical comment from those individuals who believe in an impartial Diety. "Gott Mit Uns" is the expression of one man's opinion, honored with a prize because it is well put together, and not because it takes issue with Professor Meyer's people. It is not a Harvard prize poem, and it makes no claim to crystallize the thought of Harvard...
...just such over-zealous patriots as Professor Meyer who are responsible for most of whatever anti-German sentiment exists in the United States today. If Harvard should lose its "fairness and good will" toward Germany, it will be such as Professor Meyer who are to blame. No University likes to be taken sharply to task for what, if it is a fault at all, is a microscopic one; or to have its right of free speech criticized by one whose ideals of free speech are as Teutonic as Professor Meyer...
Professor Meyer's letter smacks of theatricalism. It was sent to the press before President Lowell had had opportunity to reply. It contains, moreover, the assertion that Professor Meyer finds himself unable to accept an exchange position next year because of Harvard's bigotry. Yet we find it hard to believe that Professor Meyer is still ignorant of the action taken by the Corporation four months ago, to withdraw the intended invitation because of his intemperate utterances elsewhere. Professor Meyer is "refusing" an invitation never extended...
Incidentally, President Lowell's reply reads Professor Meyer a valuable lesson in courtesy