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...Military Problem of the United States" will be the subject of the address which Robert Matteson Johnston, assistant professor of modern history, will give before a meeting of the International Polity Club in Emerson A this evening at 8 o'clock. The subject of this address in which he will deal especially with the question of the necessary size of a standing army and the best methods for establishing it, is of particular interest t this time when the University and other educational institutions throughout the country are being called upon to voice their opinions on this vital national question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROF. JOHNSTON AT POLITY CLUB | 1/23/1917 | See Source »

Robert Matteson Johnston, A.M., assistant professor of Modern History in the University, will address the International Polity Club in Emerson A tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The subject of his talk will be, "The Military Problem of the United States," and he will deal especially with the question of the necessary size of a standing army and the means of obtaining...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROF. JOHNSTON WILL ADDRESS POLITY CLUB | 1/22/1917 | See Source »

...declares that genius is "one-tenth inspiration and nineteenths perspiration." This view seems to be logical, but at the same time in direct contradiction to the theory that President Lowell has so often expounded. The latter declares that the world needs men who have the imagination to find new problems, and emphatically not the kind of men who can automatically solve any problem that is presented to them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DETAIL AND IMAGINATION | 1/20/1917 | See Source »

Three prizes are offered by Adolph Lewisohn, president of the National Committee on Prisons, for the best theses on phases of the prison problem, prepared by students in preparatory schools, colleges and universities throughout the United States. One prize of $50 will be awarded for the best Master's thesis. Two prizes of $25 each will be presented to the author of the best undergraduate essay and to the preparatory school student who writes the best essay on the subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRISON BOARD OFFERS $100 | 1/20/1917 | See Source »

...College respectively. The prize of $50 for a Master's thesis was won by Miss Blanche Rosenthal, of Columbia, the subject of her thesis being "The History of Punishment for Murder." Mr. Harry Berlin, of New York University, was awarded the $25 prize for an undergraduate essay on "Prison Problems," and the other prize of $25 was won by Miss Lucy J. Hayner, of Barnard College, for an essay on "The Prison Farm as a Solution of the Prison Problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRISON BOARD OFFERS $100 | 1/20/1917 | See Source »