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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Genre THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING NATIONS?G. W. Morris and L. S. Wood?Oxford University Press ($1.50). An ideal, if limited, text book on the rise of the British Empire with a chapter on the U. S. Obviously a "young people's" book; but, because it is simple, direct, treats of principles rather than facts, it is of unusual interest and a new and better genre of history...
...spot on the map, a never-never land to the explorers of the past. Peary, Scott and Stefanson have gone on to a greater discovery and the land of the Northern mysteries is still left untouched to challenge such men as Amundson, McMillan, and Olgarssor to add the last chapter to the history of continental discovery...
...example, one chapter might well be devoted to a detailed and sympathetic description of University administrative system, to be written by a Dean who has had many years experience with incoming Freshmen. Another might well reprint the Register's description of the club system. Again, a series of articles on the organization and conduct of undergraduate activities--athletic, literary managerial, debating, dramatic, written by the present captains, managers, and presidents would prove of inestimable, value in acquainting the sub-Freshman with the nature of the world in which he is to live. Other headings suggest themselves at once...
...Tennessee statute has long required: "At least ten verses from the Bible shall be read or caused to be read without comment at the opening of each and every public school upon each and every day by the teacher in charge, provided the teacher does not read the same chapter more than twice during the same session...
...Jake Schaefer, but the old man trained his son, young Jake, to take revenge. Once, indeed, young Jake defeated Hoppe, took the title, but was defeated in turn after a few months. Except for this brief period, Hoppe, now 37, has been champion for 17 years. In the last chapter of his book he asks the question: "How long can I keep my title...