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Yesterday a letter from Professor Kuno Meyer, of the University of Berlin, to President Lowell was made public. The letter concerned the recent Advocate prize poem, "Gott Mit Uns," and censored both Harvard and President Lowell for fostering a "spirit of unmitigated hostility toward Germany. Professor Meyer characterizes the poem as "damnable," and states that Harvard has "silently connived at its wide circulation in the press." Harvard has "wantonly and wickedly gone out of its way to carry strife into the hallowed peace of the academic world," while the University and its President "stand branded before the world and posterity...
Professor Meyer further states that because of Harvard's attitude he is forced to decline the post of exchange professor for the coming year, and hopes that no other German will again be found to serve in such capacity...
President Lowell's reply to Professor Meyer's letter appears below: April...
...dear Professor Meyer...
Regarding Professor Meyer's resignation as exchange professor, which he claims was made because of the ideas expressed in the Advocate's poem, the following statement from University Hall is illuminating: "On December 18, 1914, The Secretary to the Corporation of Harvard College, stated that the University had intended to extend to Professor Kuno Meyer a formal invitation to lecture at the University on the subject "Celtic Literature" in which he is so eminent; but, in view of his active propaganda among the Irish in behalf of Germany, and the neutral attitude assumed by the University in regard...