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...Japan looks at the world today through Western eyes," claims Yone Noguchi, Japanese poet and professor of English Literature at the University of Tokio. Perhaps the best known of Oriental poets, Noguchi has taken the place of Lofcadio Hearn in bringing into closer touch the civilizations of the East and West. He is one of the few foreigners to adopt English as the language for his poetry, and all his work shows an ability to handle English as no other non-English poet save Tagore has done...
...America Passes By" a missionary's daughter and a young man, thrown together in Tokio where they see scarcely any of their own race, have become lovers. When the play begins they are visiting friends of the young man, a newly-married couple in Chicago. Here they find their relation to each other rapidly and fatally changing. To the quiet, religious young girl Chicago is a brutal nightmare; to the coarser-grained young man it is gloriously American, "the voice of the great old century we live in." To her his friends, their host and hostess, are vulgar and almost...
...spite of the fact that men go away to study, Japan is well supplied with modern universities and colleges. There are 5 large and 94 lesser institutions, modeled on the German plan. In Tokio alone there are 112,000 students enrolled in the University of Tokio and in six smaller colleges...
Although the University of Tokio spends as much yearly as do the Universities of Berlin and Oxford, and maintains practically the same faculty and equipment as American universities, nevertheless the tuition is practically nothing. A Japanese student can go through college for about a hundred dollars a year...
...through four American editions in this short time, deserves the greatest attention. Pacifists or belligerents we may be, we cannot escape the question "Why is war?" Mr. Angell has received attention from the press in all quarters of the globe from St. Petersburg to Rio Janiero, from Tokio to Boston. The opinions as to his thesis that war is a grand illusion vary but they all agree that he must be taken seriously. If, as has been said, America is leading the world to peace Harvard cannot claim to lead America in intellectual and spiritual progress and not give...