HONOR ABROAD

The functions of the American university graduate who studies abroad are generally vague and difficult. More especially when the travelling scholar has been honored in being the recipient of a fellowship is his position troublesome. The establishment of Rhodes scholars and the like as a sort of congenial and unofficial ambassadors to the land of their sojourn has tended to become a reversible reaction, with the result that frequent lamentations have bewailed these men as Caligulas trying to reign in a new Rome and making only a sorry pottage of their distinction.

One finds it pleasing, then, to discover Harvard's own representative in the act of regaining some of the unique distinction...time...is held to have been filtered away, and that in the sister--or parent--university, which two years ago sent its debaters to the American Cambridge. Mr. Eliot showed that the foundation belief in international good will which underlies the systems of foreign studentships is not a fallacy. The hope of explaining Nicaraguan excursions, Philippines uprisings, Armistice Day speeches, was slight almost to despair, but the explanation is made, and satisfactorily, too, in the very lair of the suspicious lion. To the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Student goes the honor of out pointing and outwitting the British genius for debate. To the British genius for fair play goes the honor of properly awarding his laurel to him. The net result is not far from equal, and credits to each side a rise in the score of mutual respect.