The latest cry of exasperation with politicians comes from Dr. Neilson, President of Smith College, who demands that scholars be " let alone" in their teaching and writing of history and that legislators " keep their hands off." Like President Farrand of Cornell, he believes that " we are getting into an era of parochial patriotism " which will do little credit to our national intelligence.
Said he (in a speech before the English-speaking Union, in Manhattan) : " The histories studied in this country have been getting better and better," he continued....
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