. The American Legion Weekly [Volume 3, No. 38 (September 23, 1921)] . read than among laborbut less vital is the liberalism of thestudent classes. The universities ofJapan ate not what they used to was, and not so long ago, whenthey were the recruiting ground forthe bureaucracy and breeding place for the learned brotherhood of preachers ofthe fitness of things as they are—theprofessors who correspond so startling-ly to the German professorate and theirpaeans of Prussian conquest. Today theuniversities provide the avid youngreaders of Marx and Lenine, and a hostof less well-known radic
. The American Legion Weekly [Volume 3, No. 38 (September 23, 1921)] . read than among laborbut less vital is the liberalism of thestudent classes. The universities ofJapan ate not what they used to was, and not so long ago, whenthey were the recruiting ground forthe bureaucracy and breeding place for the learned brotherhood of preachers ofthe fitness of things as they are—theprofessors who correspond so startling-ly to the German professorate and theirpaeans of Prussian conquest. Today theuniversities provide the avid youngreaders of Marx and Lenine, and a hostof less well-known radical writers andphilosophers. Not from the bitterestanti-Japanese among Chinese have Iheard such blighting denunciations ofJapanese militarism as from groups ofJapanese students with whom I havesat around little charcoal hibachi inwood-and-paper houses near a collegecampus in Tokyo. In every progressive movement,whether it be suffrage, equal rights forwomen, labor unions, freedom of speechor equal distribution of wealth, the stu-dents are represented. They get out a. A ten oclock scholar usually incurs his teachers dis-pleasure, but an eleventh hour go-getter counts big in the every-member-get-a-member campaign. large number of vivid little paperstranslating news of liberal movementsall over the world and crying to theJapanese people to awaken and assertthemselves. They send delegations toChina and Korea to get together withChinese and Korean students to undothe evil done by Japanese militaristsand soften the bitterness against Japanthat now fills the people of other FarEastern countries, especially denounce universal military serv-ice. They are watched by the policeand sometimes arrested. It is some-thing like the old Russia. The same is true of university pro-fessors. Just as the professors are theloudest prophets of militarism and theloudest singers of Japan ueber alles,so also are professors in the forefrontof protest. They have established con-tacts with the lea
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