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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Advocate grinders cease because they are few, or is there some cogent reason why the current issue is so destitute of contents? Besides the editorials and book review but five small contributions in verse and one in prose make up the number, which is meagre indeed when one recalls past Advocates of five and six pieces and thirteen or fourteen contributions in verse. However, it is not of quantity that we ought to judge, or are to judge, but of quality,--quantum meruit...
...first American book appeared in 1889, a collection of essays entitled "Psychology and Life." It was followed by more than 20 volumes besides a prodigious number of articles in periodicals. Of his more strictly scientific writings during this period the most important are "Grundzuge der Psychologie" (1900) the first volume of a largely planned work which was never completed,--"Science and Idealims" (1906), "The Eternal Values" (1909), "Grundzuge der Psychotechnik" (1914). In the latter years of his life his interest turned more and more to the applications of psychology, the practical bearings of the science on education, law, medicine...
Prize Offered for Book Review...
...Club announces a prize to be offered by the American Association for International Conciliation for the best review of the book, "The Things That Men Fight For," by H. H. Powers, who spoke to the Club at its last meeting. The competition is open to any student member of an International Polity Club at any American University. The first prize will be $35 and an additional prize of $5 will be given to the member of each Club writing the best review...
Anyone who is familiar with the task of editing a college year book knows only too well the paramount difficulty of getting men to have their pictures taken and to send in the illustrious histories of their lives. This year's photograph committee intend to have the Senior Album published by May first, and if they fail it will be on account of the carelessness of the members of 1917. Twenty minutes is long enough for any man to rid himself of all obligations, and immediate responses to the letters sent out last week will be a great help...