Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...black and white, which a generation and more ago called into being Kingsley, King, Church, Kruel, and a host of others whose names were then household words. To the rising generation the very names of those honorable artists and craftsmen are almost unknown. The once flourishing school of American wood-engravers has virtually dwindled to two: Timothy Cole and Henry Wolf, whose art is called into service by only a very few magazine publishers and by occasional collectors and amateurs, who still prefer the once popular engraving to the photograph or process reproduction...
...followed in 1900 by work in Spain. In 1910 he finished his commission on a series of French paintings. After an absence of twenty-seven years he returned to America, and still in the employ of the "Century" he began at once a new series known as "Masterpieces in American Galleries...
...literary and dramatic criticisms which close the number are of average quality. The reviewer of the "Pillar of Fire" would have been more interesting if he had been more specific as to the nature of Mr. Deming's charges against American universities. A detailed discussion of such a book is surely very much the business of the Advocate...
...Platt Andrew '95, executive head of the American Ambulance field service in France, has announced that a new section will soon be going to the front. An opportunity for service is offered to those who wish to enlist for six months or more. Six months is the minimum, and those enlisting are urged to do so for as much longer as possible. Applications may be made to D. L. McGrew '03 at 262 Washington street, Boston, or to W. R. Hereford, 14 Wall street, New York...
...guilty people, while nowadays little notice is taken of such proceedings. "Although Berlin," he said, "is half responsible for the massacre of innocent people, the United States should be held equally accountable for making no form of protest. An eventual break with Germany will be inevitable and the American people must be ready in resources and equipment, as well as spirit...