Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-03
PROF. MEYERS HOT PROTEST.

Professor Kuno Meyer, of the Uni
versity Of Berlin. has withdrawn his
candidacy as exchange professor Mt
Harvard University. an Internationally
distinguished scholastic position. which
ne was TO have occupied at the Amer
lean university next season. because Of
an anti-German poem printed In one
OF tho student publications OF the In
sttution The poem which aroused
Professor Meyers wrath was printed
In the Harvard Advocate OF tho 9th. II
was called Colt Nit uns." and won the
prize in competition for poems on the
war conducted by the publication. This
announcement Of II appeared editorial
ly in tho Advocate: Lean Briggs and
Professor Bliss Perry. tho Judges OF
the Advocate war poem prize compc-
ton. have awarded the prize to c.
Huntington Jacobs. 1916. Tho prize
poem. Colt Nit Uns.' appears in this
number OF the Advocate"
Letter to President Lowell.
Professor Meyer sent to the New York
Iimes copy OF the following letter
TO President Lowell, OF Harvard:
Sill hear that tho slanderous and
vile poem entitled 'Gott Nit Uns.,
which. under the heading Harvard
Prize Poem has recently made the
round of the American press, was actu-
ally awarded prize by two members
or the Harvard professionals. Mcssrs.
Briggs and Perry. This gratuitous and
shameless insult to tho honor and fair
fame of a friendly nation has called
forth no word of censure or disapproval
from you, sir. or from any of the au
thorlties OF the institution over which
you preside.
1T is tho pretense of Harvard to cul-
tivate within Its precincts n true spirit
or neutrality. Let me recall to you the
noble words In which President VIII
son defined that spirit. Its basis Is to
De sympathy for mankind fairness
GOOD VIII. impartiality of spirit and of
Judgment BY singing out this dam
nable poem for n prize. by it's publica
ZION In the pages Of the Advocate. by
silently conniving at it's wider circu-
iation In the press. Harvard has re-
Vealed Its true spirit. which Is one OF
unmitiGatcd hostility to nv country
and people and TO their cause. It Is
the same spirit which animates every
word recently written on Germany by
your predecessor.
AT tho time when n bobooro ~,
academic institutions and bodies 49,
especially those OF neutral countries
TO exert their every influence to nro
mote amity in international relations
10 safeguard the common interests of
science scholarship. and learning to
neal some of the wounds which tho
war mas struck. tho University of Har-
Fard has wantonly and wickcdlu gone
out or It's way to carry strife into tho
hallowed peace of the academic world
ny heaping insults upon the people to
which 1t, In common with and above
the rest of America, owes so much
nave recotlcd from such an action. You
and the institution which you repre-
sent stand branded before the world
and posterity as abcttors of internal
tional anmosity. as traitors to the
sacred cause Of humanity.
IN the name of my native country,
protest against this outrage, and I
know that my protest will be echoed
not only by the whole Of Germany but
by every fair-minded and honest Amer
lean.
AS for myself. indorse the hope cx-
pressed by my brother, an honorary