Word: sanely
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This brief resume of the system proposed by the War Department explains the use which will be made of the best material we have in this country for officers, and will not only improve the average efficiency of reserve organizations, but also spread throughout the country a better, more sane and safe program of preparedness--preparedness in a matter which is of vital importance,--that of obtaining trained officers before even any men are enlisted for new organizations...
...editorials are sane, illuminating, and well-written; the review of two collections of recent poetry is intelligent and competent. These concluding articles confirm the impression made by the number as a whole; the Monthly is frankly and unaffectedly literary, alive to recent tendencies and events, but still respectful toward standards other than its editors', and reassuringly free from extremes, poses, and "isms" of the baser sort...
Athletics we hear of only for a moment, in a sane little editorial on the "Amateur Spirit...
...Rescue" is a gloomy story of hereditary insanity. Anna Warden, a young girl of a family tainted with suicidal mania, is expectantly watched by an aunt scarcely sane herself. The aunt's morbid and excited precautions are rapidly sending Anna the way of her ancestors. She is rescued by a faithful old servant who tells her that she is an illegitimate child and "not a Warden" except in name. The story is a lie; but it saves the girl, who goes, with new hope, to work. The play is well written and was well acted throughout. Miss Ellis...
...other article in this Advocate is so independent and vigorous as Mr. Mansfield's. The others, in fact, suggest something of the evils which will result when individuality is no more. There are three book reviews, conventionally sane and sound, except that a good many readers will question whether "Mr. Galsworthy's Justice' as a whole falls below the dramatic level of the 'Eldest Son.'" There is a conventionally humorous consideration of that time-honored subject, "Cambridge Weather." There is a conventional undergraduate story, "The Flame," the heroine of which is like "the changing pastel tones" of the "warm amber...