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...moral problem that the western world has to face at the present time is materialism and commercialism, and it is because of the over-valuation that men place on worldly goods that the progress of the world is so slow. The world of the Middle Ages was anything but ideal, being full of greed, cruelty, and lust, but the world of today is above all else, symbolical of materialism...
...article contributed to the Monthly for February, 1910, Mr. Robert Herrick spoke of a former ideal of literary art which "withstood various assaults from the practical, who wished the Monthly to 'get more in touch' -- abhorrent phrase -- with this or that,--athletics, the graduates, etc." "The magazine," he continued, "at any rate in my day, preserved a fine uselessness. I hope it does still!" The Monthly is certainly getting very much "in touch." The present number contains one brief essay, three 'stories, and five poems, at least one, "To a School fellow," by C. V. Wright, being of real excellence...
...hero's face "fresh, young, and ruddy from his gray ride over the boggy roads," etc. The tale is better than most of its brand, with interesting characters sharply defined in a charming and well realized environment; but the brand is poor. In the short article championing the university ideal for Harvard, Mr. Gregg likewise vitiates his contention by constraint and obscurity of diction...
...February number the Monthly ly has found itself. After months of laborious mediocrity, it has brought out an issue that is brilliant, fresh, vital, human; unified by a definite ideal of social progress firmly based on a pervasive sense of reality; above all, jubilantly young. At times the Monthly has seemed to stumble in premature senility; in this number it is light afoot, and fine with the virtues and the faults that we all like to claim as belonging essentially to youth...
...Scheme for an Ideal Monetary System for the United States...