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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Effects of the war can be traced in many directions in the analyses of the publication lists furnished by the Publishers' Weekly. They are shown strikingly in an increase from 1916 of 244 books devoted to military and naval science. Great Britain produced in 1917 a book total of 8...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 2/6/1918 | See Source »

Foreign armies include in their ranks even boys, while we hesitate to enroll all who have reached their majority. That men between 20 and 22 years of age make enthusiastic, efficient soldiers needs no proof, nor can the authorities at Washington be ignorant of this fact. Not only do they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMPLETE THE DRAFT | 2/6/1918 | See Source »

In the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly there is published and article by R. K. Hack on "The Case for humility" which every member of American educational institutions, both undergraduates and faculty, would do well to read. Mr. Hack has attempted to bring peace to the continually warring Modernist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE CASE FOR HUMILITY" | 2/4/1918 | See Source »

We can only commend Mr. Hack's opinions. The tendency to cram for examinations, to haggle over marks, to amass information relative to nothing other than the mer possession of it, are all symptoms of an educational disease that this writer sees clearly. But whether we agree with Mr. Hack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE CASE FOR HUMILITY" | 2/4/1918 | See Source »

Heroes have been honored in many ways and on many occasions ever since wars first began. He whose death was valiant even more than he whose life was marked by bold deeds has furnished inspiration for future generations. Some are remembered through memorials of marble, other thought the literature of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MEEKER MEMORIAL | 2/2/1918 | See Source »

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