Abstract

Editorials

This article presents information on social conditions of several nations. The second annual National Negro Conference for the discussion of the problem of African Americans, was met in New York, last week. This year, the discussions were concerned with disfranchisement--how disfranchisement affects an Afro-American in the courts, in the schools, at the ballot-box, and in his other relations to the communities in which he dwells. The year 1910 is the centennial of national independence for the greater part of Spanish America. The recent growth of Argentina has been such as to disprove many facile generalizations about the decadence of the Latin race. Given equally favorable conditions of climate and natural resources, the Latin peoples who make up the population of Argentina have demonstrated their ability to keep pace with the self-complacent Anglo-Saxon. Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, undertook to introduce in the U.S., the methods and standards of the great universities of Europe. The project was attended with immediate and brilliant success.