Show The American students in Berlin have 1 fl i < II4 j I decided to commemorate the birthday i of James Russell Lowell on February 22 next says the Philadelphia Record i i The Inspiration is a most happy one I The distinguished American scholar I and poet who would be 78 if he were I still alive boasted the same birthday as the Father of HisCountry It has become too much the fashion of late years to underestimateLowells genius and it Is a good thin to behold a patriotic pa-triotic group of American students paying this tribute to his memory in a foreign land It is most fitting furthermore fur-thermore that this university celebration celebra-tion should honor a university scholar and the poet too who wrote the noble Commemoration Ode It is doubtful if Lowell is realv underestimated un-derestimated that he is not so extensively I exten-sively read as once is doubtless true but those who do read him and reread him and there are some such find their ap1 predation of him increase He is probably prob-ably the foremost man of letters that the United States have produced taking the term in its strict sense It is well I that his birthdar should be remembered remem-bered by American students whether I in Berlin or elsewhere |