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...first of the steel cargo ships built by the Government, since the declaration of war, to increase the available tonnage, will be launched in Seattle next Saturday. It has taken only four months to construct her, and already a large number of standardized sister ships are in various stages of completion. Whatever delay there may be in turning out cargo ships is not due to lack of workers or supplies, but to the lack of those enormous plants which are necessary for the construction of even a relatively small vessel. Lloyd George has again urged us to increase our shipbuilding...
Military drill at Princeton is progressing rapidly. Among the several new features added to the daily routine during the past week are bayonet instruction, problems in estimating distances, and trench work. The last mentioned feature, trench construction, has been taken up only by those men enlisted for intensive training. The work has consisted mainly of constructing combination trenches, which do not present so many difficulties in building. It was also found necessary to construct trenches of this type because the dampness of the ground where the work is being carried on did not allow any depth for digging. Sand...
James Linn Weber, professor of English at the University of Chicago, who believes he has read and corrected enough composition papers to construct a great white highway from Princeton to New York, makes several interesting comments in the New Republic on the college undergraduate...
This is the more surprising in Mr. Booth, since he had the advantage, at outset, of a good, workmanlike novel to draw upon. It is not a sin against art to write a romance or construct a play upon the impossible physical resemblance of two men. Only you must get away with it. A certain William Shakespeare, as Professor Baker would say, "got away with it," to a remarkable degree in "Twelfth Night," and so did Anthony Hope in that classic melodrama, "The Prisoner of Zenda." And so did Mrs. Thurston, the original author of "The Masquerader." But Mr. Booth...
...apparent to anybody, whether or not he believes them sufficiently weighty to form the basis of a new education for youth after the present educational system shall have been swept away as faulty beyond amendment. The present system has not yet been over-thrown, but the attempt to construct a new one before destroying the existing scheme cannot be too highly praised...