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THE ROOSEVELT EXCHANGE PROFESSOR
                   By LOUIS P. LOCHNER, '09
men have managed
crowd into a whole
-time what Paul S.
nsch, '92, at present
eodore Roosevelt Ex-
rage Professor at the,
          University  of  Berlin,
has been able to force into the
short span of 42 years. A mastery
of four languages- English, Ger-
man, Spanish   and   French-and
the acquisition of a reading know-
ledge of half a dozen others; the
publication of some twelve volumes
with subjects as varied as Intellec-
tual and Political Currents in the
Far East, and American Legisla-
tures and Legislative Methods; the'
contribution of scores of articles-
to magazines as diverse in nature
as the Atlantic Monthly and the-
International Law Review, as the
American luagaztne ana tue Iv orta
American Review; the incumbency
of a full professorship at his Alma
Mater only nine years after receiv-
ing his A. B. degree; the satisfac-
tory fulfillment of his mission as
one of the American delegates to
both the Third and Fourth Pan-
American Conferences and as vice-
president of the First Pan-Ameri-
can Scientific Congress-these are
some of the achievements of the
versatile scholar-statesman.
  Add to this the great variety of
topics upon which he has addressed
the public-varying from Japanese
Art to International Peace, and
from Religion to the Monroe Doc-
trine; add to it the comprehensive-
ness of the courses taught by him
at the university--including Phil-
osophy of the State, History of
English and American Law, Colon-
ikil Administration, Contemporan-
eous International Politics, Orient-
al Civilization, and a number of
others-; add to it his confidential
relations with the Department of
State:.at Washington, whither he
is often summoned to give expert
pinion on international questions,
-and one marvels how a man only
niineteen years out of college could
accomplish it all.
  Dri. Reinsch was born at Mil-
Waukee, Wis., on June 10, 1869,
the son of a German Lutheran
Sergyman. He attended Con-
Cord   College in his native city,
a. Lutheran institution patterned
upon the gymnasia of Germany.
The prevalent language was Ger-
man. Theology and the Latin and
Greek classics formed the greater
part of the curriculum; while pol-
itics, sociology and economics were
given but very little attention.
Thus Mr. Reinsch acquired a thor-
ough philological training, but one
which little forboded his lat r ca-
reer as a teacher of international
politics, a man of affairs, and an
accomplished diplomat of proven
worth.
  He entered the University of
Wisconsin in 1888. While contin-