Word: forme
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...back of that cover the burlesques run true to best form. The complete number, indeed, is successfully a pseudo-Cosmopolitan all over--except, perhaps, for the advertising pages. The page most certain to hand Lampy customers a laugh is its rotogravure of "A Parisian Beauty." Mr. Wilson himself, we are sure, would enjoy it for light reading in his current convalescence...
...second, third, fourth, sixth and seventh: Winchester, Pratt, R. A. Lutz, L. de Zerega, A. R. Balsam, S. D. Robinson, S. L. Tait, and R. N. Bryan. Except for Balsam and Bryan, these men have regularly been among the first 10 in time trials and races, and will probably form the nucleus of the team that is sent to New Haven Saturday...
America needs the steadying influence derived from a democratic form of universal military training. In the present times of internal turmoil and disorder the advantages of such a policy are brought home to us with unusual force. What more effective way is there to inculcate in alien citizens the responsibilities of American citizenship than by giving them a period of service in a democratic army? General Pershing, appearing before the Joint Military Committee of Congress, said "Universal training is in a sense a school for citizenship. . . the necessity of this is evidenced by the fact that over thirty...
...some reason the importance of college games still depends largely upon their possibilities of physical injury rather than their potentialities of skill, and the spectators as well as the governing bodies hesitate to recognize any form of sport in which a player is not likely to be seriously hurt. Men who have played both university football and first-class tennis admit that a five-set tournament match may be a more grueling affair than the most desperate of gridiron battles, but with broken bones, cuts and bruises eliminated, there are usually no external evidences of the punishment. Unfortunately, however...
...muddle-headedness of the Senator form Indiana would be scarcely deserving of comment were it not so general. The occasion for his attack is the publication by the Federal Trade Commission of a third volume of damaging revelation concerning the big packers, and the advocacy by that body and by the Department of Agriculture of Federal control as a means to bring down the price of food. The Commission secured the services of certain Socialist reformers in its investigation. The packers are making a last stand to preserve their private monopoly; and Senator Watson is their involuntary spokesman. But federal...