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...entirely new policy of universal service. This obviously looks toward a great increase in our military strength, and the obvious query is, what is it for? We say, and sincerely believe, it is for defense only; but will this be accepted by other nations? Diplomatic authorities tell us that the Kaiser was an earnest worker for peace, and did not willfully precipitate the war. This statement is usually greeted with smiles, and references to the enormous military organization of Germany, and to historical fact. Our military preparations will be undeniable, and unfortunately historical. Fact is none too reassuring...
...course, books have to be borrowed and the institutions which lend them are doing incalculable service. But the value of the home library cannot easily be ex-aggregated. Cicero called a room without books "a body without a soul," and Carlyle tells us that a collection of books is "a real university." Without that collection in sight, ready for use, how beyond the reading of them shall we invoke with Sir John Lubbock, the "crowd of delicious memories, grateful recollections of peaceful home hours after the labors and anxieties of the day? How thankful we ought to be," he adds...
...movies is to fulfill a distinctly modern function, for our dogmatic critic of today, nursed on the latest of the old diets, will experience a strange sensation in attempting to pass judgment on a series of reels, no matter what their quality. "The Birth of a Nation," however, made us sit up and take notice, and from its appearance on, we have been made to realize that great things were being done in this field of popular pantomime. "A Daughter of the Gods," now playing at the Majestic Theatre, is evidently a production trying to equal the record...
...marine art, cannot save the play from dragging, and it is all because the thread of narrative becomes so unravelled after the first few minutes that it would take Sherlock Holmes himself to comprehend exactly all that is going on. For those events which do seem perfectly consistent to us are scenic rather than dramatic, and if "A Daughter of the Gods" is intended to be merely spectacular, why introduce so many touches of sentimentality? It is true the "leaders" tell us to become children again, but Miss Kellermann's antics in the brine, while charming and all that...
...source of much regret to many of us that the straw-vote, taken at this behest, has been preceded by no discussion in the columns of the CRIMSON, and, moreover, that the question on the ballot has been phrased as it has. The real question is not "Are you in favor of some form of universal military train- ing?", but "Are you in favor of any system of universal military training which is made compulsory?" And on this question, involving a departure from the spirit and tradition of America and from what we have conceived to be the ideal...