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it comes to judging other races, must know all this; so I say that they are traitors if they have taken the oath of allegiance to the United States. If they have not, and dream of returning one day to the fatherland, then I have nothing to say, for there is no better motto for any man than: "My country, right or wrong." "Gott Mit Uns" By C. HUNTINGTON JACOBS [Harvard Prize Poem] Professor Kuno Meyer, of the University of Berlin, resigned his incumbency as Visiting Professor at Harvard University during the next season because of this poem, which was printed in _The Harvard Advocate_ of April 9th, last, and won the prize in a competition for poems on the war conducted by that publication. This announcement of it appeared editorially: "Dean Briggs and Professor Bliss Perry, the judges of the _Advocate_ war poem prize competition, have awarded the prize to C. Huntington Jacobs, 1916." No doubt _ye_ are the people: Wisdom's flame Springs from _your_ cannon--yea from yours alone. God needs _your_ dripping lance to prop His throne; _Your_ gleeful torch His glory to proclaim. No doubt _ye_ are the people: far from shame Your Captains who deface the sculptured stone Which by the labor and the blood and bone Of pious millions calls upon His name. No doubt _ye_ are the folk; and 'tis to prove Your wardenship of Virtue and of Lore Ye sacrifice the Truth in reeking gore Upon your altar to the Prince of Love. Yet still cry we who still in darkness plod: "'Tis Antichrist ye serve and not our God!" On the Psychology of Neutrals By Friedrich Curtius Friedrich Curtius, of Strassburg, had attained such distinction at the beginning of the century that Prince Chlodwig of Hohenlohe-Schillingfuerst, who succeeded Count Caprivi as Chancellor of the German Empire, on his retirement in 1900, asked Curtius to co-operate with him in the preparation of the _Memoirs_ (New York, The Macmillan Co., 1906) which have since become famous. But the joint work was brought to a sudden end by Prince Hohenlohe's death, and Friedrich Curtius devoted himself, for the next six or seven years, to the completion of the unfinished task. When the _Memoirs_ were finally published, first in America and then in Germany, they were so outspoken as to
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