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Nowhere before have the figures on this year's enrolment in the American colleges been compiled in so comprehensive a survey as appears on another page of this issue. Arrayed in such a nation-wide summary, the facts of the collegiate contribution to the country's man-power for war stand out very clearly. Twenty-one thousand fewer students are enrolled this year than last in 60 representative colleges and universities. The loss has not been confined to the men who have gone into national service after admission to the undergraduate classes but has also included a diminution of more...
...following are branches in which expert knowledge will be of service: Aviation, Business Administration (quartermaster), Chemistry, Dentistry, Divinity (chaplains), Engineering, En- tomology (camp pests, etc.), Law (Judge Advocate General's Department), Medicine and Surgery, Metallurgy, Meteorology, etc., Navigation, Sanitation, Seismology, Telegraphy and Wireless, Topography (under U. S. Geological Survey, War Department Division), Transportation, Veterinary Science. In addition it may be suggested that business men of good experience in handling problems of supply, transportation, labor, etc., are well suited to enter the Quartermaster's Corps...
Unquestionably college papers will bear a great deal of improvement. After a careful survey of the field, no intelligent reader will take exception to the Transcript's charges. But the remedy suggested involves grave dangers for it infers a misconception of the purpose of undergraduate publications...
...Lobo is secretary to the President of Brazil and although a comparatively young man, he has had a notable career in the diplomatic service of his country. He has written a number of important books on diplomatic affairs in South America. The latest of these is a survey of the history of pan-Americanism entitled, "From Monroe to Rio Branco." I addition, he has made series of investigations of the boundary litigation's in which Brazil has had a part, and which on account of the extent and location on that country, are of unusual importance in the affairs...
After a brief survey of the history of the philosophic theories out of which the present form of psychical research has grown, Dr. Hyslop stated thus the question before the psychical research worker today: "Can we find consciousness disassociated from physical organism?" Professor Royce indicated in several of his reports between 1885 and 1887 that from the mass of evidence before him, in his connection with the Society of Psychical Research, that the spirit appears in the form of apparitions after death...