Word: americans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...another column is printed a review of "American Defense," a monthly magazine devoted to preparedness. Interest lies in the fact that its founders are University graduates. The originator of the scheme was C. S. Thompson '87, chairman of the board of trustees of the American Defense Society. The editor-in-chief is P. J. Roosevelt '13, and among the associate editors and contributors are R. W. Child '03, G. von L. Meyer '79, former secretary of the navy, and C. Stetson LL.B. '03, and Owen Wister...
...First book that occurs to me to mention is by the Harvard professor who is generally recognized as the Dean of American students of English, Professor Kittredge. His six lectures on Chaucer, delivered at Johns Hopkins University in 1914, have recently been published under the title of "Chaucer and His Poetry." It is, I think, hardly too much to say that this is one of the most interesting books on Chaucer that has ever appeared. Based upon profound and exact knowledge, it is as far as possible removed from pedantic scholarship. It is instinct throughout, with the liveliest enjoyment...
...That an effective defence against an enterprising enemy in the Philippines could be made with a deficiency of 33 per cent of the manning details of the coast defences of Manila and Subig Bay and with a mobile force of a little over 7,000 American troops, supplemented by less than 6,000 Philippine Scouts, is manifestly impossible; that the great water-way of the Panama Canal cannot be protected against the operations of a first-class military power by the present or proposed garrison we contemplate placing there without the power and ability to reinforce it rapidly by troops...
...American Defense Society has issued the first number of its new publication. "American Defense." The prime movers in this undertaking are University graduates, C. S. Thompson '87 being the founder, and P. J. Roosevelt '13 the editor-in-chief. Other editors and contributors are G. von L. Meyer '79, former secretary of the navy, R. W. Child '03, C. Stetson LL.B. '03, and Owen Wister '82. The magazine has for its object the spreading of the preparedness propaganda over the entire country...
...fashioned plantation melodies, folk songs and dialect readings. The men, who have traveled over the entire country, singing in the interest of their school, are skilled performers and have been accorded enthusiastic receptions every where they have been. The entertainment tonight will be of especial interest to an American audience...