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...state. But that is absolutely inadequate if the teaching profession is to attract the type of people who are competent to be the guides during their most impressionable years of the future Americans. The startling number of young men disclosed by the draft who are illiterate or physically imperfect shows that our schools are functioning imperfectly even now. Should not the strong arm of the National Government reach out, then, and correct and regulate our common schools? It surely can do much good by way of improvement. But quite within the range of possibilities are very terrible dangers...
discreditable, is uneasy, as the sonnets of the young (and even of the old) are wont to be; the Horatian verses to Chloe are imperfect, but promising,--"Therefore lift up your blushing gaze, and quit your all-sufficient mother." Mr. Auslander's sonnet, like all his work, shows talent and skill; but, hardened though we are to mixed novelties, we cannot accept as genuine his prayer for "the feathered thrill of birds." Mr. La Farge's "To My Goddess" exhibits feeling for the music of verse and contains pretty details. Unhappily the reviewer's copy omits the last line...
...results of the past year have shown the ability of our seamen to get upon terms with the submarine menace and gradually to gain the upper hand. This result has been achieved in spite of an imperfect knowledge of a new and barbarous method of warfare and of a scarcity of suitable material. Our material resources for this warfare are already improved, and are being rapidly augmented, whilst science is placing at our disposal means of offense and defense of which we have been in need. --The Outlook...
...which he is navigating, the better equipped he is as a fighter, as a photographer, or on reconnaissance work. At critical times, meteorological knowledge has time and again proved its practical value to those who navigate the air. It is true enough that meteorologists still have but a very imperfect idea of much that concerns the upper air currents, but what they do know they are now putting at the service of the men who fly. And the men who fly will, in their turn, enrich and advance meteorological science by means of the many important facts which their...
...High Church curate, is appropriately preposterous but no more preposterous than people like that are in reality. We should add that Mr. Shaw's sentimental hatred of sentimentality is occasionally a little boring. Altogether it is as fine a production as we are likely to see in this imperfect age. CUTHBERT WRIGHT...