Word: booked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Only two persons may combine on the book of the play. The music, which may be written in connection with or independently of the play, must also be composed by no more than two. In order to be eligible for election or for receiving a prize, the composer must have at least six songs accepted. All manuscripts must be typewritten and must be sent to F. H. Cabot '17, Holworthy 18, before the end of the Christmas vacation...
...anonymous graduates are arranging to send to each member of the Freshman Class a copy of a book containing four essays on college life. The first of these is "Soldiers' Field," the address made by Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 at the dedication of the University's present athletic field; then follows a selection from the essay "Habit," by the late Professor William James '69 in which the necessity of habits without exceptions is emphasized. The other two selections are Dean Briggs' "Mistakes of College Life" and the Phi Beta Kappa poem of 1903, "Mater Fortissima." These little books will...
...Preparedness in a nutshell" is the best phrase that could be used to describe Lucien Howe's new book. "Universal Military Education" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York). Dr. Howe has had valuable experience with young men of all ages and conditions, and, as he tells us in his preface, he soon learned in the course of his medical career "how much people might be improved by a little systematic training in promptness, exactness, restraint, efficiency and other soldierly qualities." And aside from the incalculable benefits to the individuals that should urge us toward, some system of military training...
...nations, and the strength of our army on a war footing compared with our population and the territory we have to protect. He further explains the measures that have already been passed by Congress and shows their unsuitability to our needs at the present time. The remainder of the book contains valuable statistics on preparedness, what it can do for the individual and the best methods of impressing it upon the nation at large. Some system of universal service is needed; and the Swiss system, from the point of view of the greatest benefit to the individual, the health...
...word, Dr. Howe's book makes one think,--and from a saner and more logical standpoint than one is generally as customed to think