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...study of the American Revolution will receive great stimulus from the Report, for the wealth of new material may make possible at last a definite solution of long vexed problems. This short sketch cannot do more than give the barest outlines of the long struggle according to the fresh discoveries. No definite principle on either side can be distinguished, and the old shibboleths of Slavery and States' Rights must now be relegated to the limbo of historical illusions together with the Trade Routes of Troy. Both public and private documents prove that the white troops fought loyally for their masters...
...book with all those excellent portraits you use on covers, with a cryptic biographical sketch in TIME's style? You have the finest charcoal portraitists in America in Gordon Stevenson and S. J. Woolf. You have already many biographical sketches of notable subjects. Such a book is necessary to every library. Get the idea? Send me, C. O. D., the first one. MYNATT...
...committee has also decided to revise the social service pamphlet issued annually by the Phillips Brooks House to make it more into the form of a text book for novice social workers. The pamphlet will contain a thumbnail sketch of the work and aim of each house and also a bibliography of books helpful to social workers. In the latter connection the library at the Phillips Brooks House will be increased to include a special social service department...
Married. Joe Howard, actor who long shared with De Wolfe Hopper and the late Nat Goodwin the honor of being the husband of five wives, to a sixth, Miss Anita Case, now appearing in a vaudeville sketch with him; in Milwaukee...
...Oxford tutors were described with kindly justice by Dr. Brinton. His rapid and clear survey gives a vivid picture of Oxford life and it is a considerable achievement to have simplified without distortion the mass of inconsistencies and inefficiencies which is Oxford. I can only recall one neater sketch. It is this...