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PROGRESS AND THE CONSTITUTION???Newton D. Baker?Scribner's ($1.25). Newton Diehl Baker has written a book in which he analyzes progress under the Constitution. The book includes three lectures before the University of Virginia Law School?Progress in Institutions, Progress in Industry, Progress in Foreign Relations. The life of civilized man in our day differs more from George Washington's than Washington's from that of Julius Caesar; Jefferson, in a desk drawer at Monticello, is said to have had the constitutions of 100 democracies?all failures: these statements preface Mr. Baker's explanation of the endurance of ours...
...Auditorium, Washington, five boys and two girls gave decisive orations on the U. S. Constitution???the finals of a Nation-wide prize contest sponsored by leading newspapers. John Hays Hammond presided, ranks of eminent men flanked the rostrum. Before the speeches began, the President mounted the platform, delivered an address on the gratifying support which the people had given the Constitution at the last election, departed...