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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Once a league is formed; once the world may be assured of our intentions in arming,--then America must do her share. If it is required of us, let us have an army of a million men and universal training. Then no danger of suspicion attaches to so radical a change in policy; but until then it is a stumbling-block in the road of the world's progress. HALLOWELL DAVIS...
...many of our own hundred million and odd people prefer the "touch-and-go" method in reading to the permanent joys of possession? The question is not idle in a land vastly richer in popular libraries than any of the countries of Europe, Great Britain included. The set-off is that we have a large public nurtured in the tradition of buying; the foreigner who settles in our reading atmosphere finds to his surprise that we purchase as well as borrow books to an extent unknown abroad. The "shelf" movement had its greatest success here; the new cheap editions were...
...remarkable prosperity of this country. Never before have wealthy Americans, who have accumulated many times an ordinary fortune during the last two years, made such liberal donations to educational and charitable institutions. Columbia University shocked the public when President Butler asked for the modest sum of thirty million dollars. Already nearly two thirds of this amount has been promised and the remainder is practically assured. Other colleges and universities all over the country are asking for gifts to satisfy their respective needs. Now Harvard has appointed a Harvard Endowment Fund Committee to raise ten million dollars. There is little question...
...million dollars undoubtedly will be given. May a large portion of the future income go to increasing the salaries of the University's professors...
Atlanta University, an institution for the higher education of colored men and women in Atlanta, Ga., now celebrating its semi-centenial, has begun the raising of a half-million-dollar endowment fund. to this we gladly call our readers' attention in the earnest hope that some of them will contribute to this most worthy undertaking, even at a time when the need for help in Europe is so great. Why do we take this position? Because even in the south people are beginning to realize that if the colored people are to direct their footsteps towards efficiency, probity and useful...