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...Transcript. The men who wrote that burlesque probably did not think they were doing anything of any particular literary significance; they simply wrote for the delectation of their classmates and friends, and then like the gentleman in Moliere's play who found he had been speaking prose all along, they found they had succeeded in turning out literature. Similarly, if the college literary magazines were better simply as magazines, I believe their literary value would almost take care of itself...
...being formed as a separate four-company battalion of infantry, as before. A new army organization is in view, and when this is officially published, it is probable that the First Corps will become a machine-gun organization, and it expects, to this end, to inaugurate practical training along the lines prescribed for infantry machine gun companies, including riot duty and field problems. Company drill is held one evening weekly for three weeks of the month, the remaining weekly period being devoted to battalion drill and parade. With the exception of two weeks tour of field duty performed...
...restore its former prestige and usefulness under the new conditions, it was reorganized in 1908 as a graduate department for investigating fundamental problems underlying the application of biological principles to agriculture, and to train a limited number of advanced students for teaching and research along these lines. Thus it assumed a different role from that played by the state agricultural colleges and experiment stations and was given an opportunity to undertake work outside the scope of these institutions...
Although greatly handicapped through the lack of proper funds and equipment, the Bussey Institution has developed and is now carrying on research and teaching along a number of lines in subjects related, or subsidiary to agriculture, and more or less directly connected with material human welfare...
...forward, if we stop development along economic lines in government, the American ideal dies. For we must now have economic democracy for the twentieth century as we have had political democracy in the nineteenth century. If our ideal dies, the state which is organized to protect that ideal becames a mere shell." Mr. White ended his talk by an optimistic note, declaring that conservatism and reaction so evident now following the war are passing phases of the world's shell-shock and war-weariness, and that all the altruism and all the self-scarce which America put into...