Professor Harlow has been for ten years professor of sociology and chaplain at International College, Smyrna, an American Institute recently destroyed by the Turks. He is now on a lecture tour, and spoke at Phillips Brooks House recently.

"Last come, we will be last to stay,

Till right has had her crowing day.

Replenish, Allies, from our veins

The blood the sword of despots drains,

And make our eager sacrifice

Part of the freely rendered price

You pay to lift humanity

You pay to set our brothers free."

Where, today, is the America, that responded so eagerly in words like these to the challenge, as she sent her sons into battle? Is the America which refused to hold out her hand to help the Near East in a national way, through accepting a mandate, as unselfish as the nation which in 1917 responded to such noble sentiments?

There is more starvation in the world today than there was in the old world before the war. Pick up your papers almost any day, and read of the countless thousands subsisting on grass and roots in Russia, and of the famished thousands on the bleak islands of Greece and on the coast of the Aegean. Never were there so many homeless people as wander today seeking a place where they may lay their heads. Can we say that, in this so called "new world", womanhood and childhood is more respected and more loved? I fear not. The public reads great figures telling of the number of women outraged in Smyrna, of the countless orphans driven into exile or thrown into the waters of the harbor--and what does it mean?

The War an Anesthetic

In that old world before the war, one such event would have cost us sleepless nights. The war, with all its suffering and atrocities, has been an anesthetic. We have become too accustomed to the cries of the oppressed to have them vibrate painfully upon our nerves and conscience. The enthusiasm produced in the fever of the war days has given place to the peril of waning idealism. Nothing could be more dangerous, if these are the facts, than to close our minds and hearts, and to drift on. I am not a prophet of pessimism, but I am aware of that ancient saying: "He who cries peace, peace, when there is no peace, shall be cursed".

"And Especially to Harvard--"

And to young America, and especially to Harvard, with her rich heritage of ideals and traditions, all of these facts ought to present a tremendous challenge, "for what you are, the race shall be". If the world seems worse, if evil seems more rampant, it is not true that all of these forces against right-eousness were not present in the hearts of men before the war. The hatred, the cruelty, the lust, the falsity, was not on the surface, but it was there underneath, and the war simply brought it out into the light. Never in history have men and women, especially young men and women with their lives before them, faced so stirring a challenge to fight the fight for the establishment of the ideals of Christ, to dedicate their lives unselfishly, unconditionally, to this warfare against unrighteousness, hatred, and bitterness.