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...probability for this nation than for any other; but war is a probability and as such should not be overlooked in our dreams of Millenium. The aim of the campaign of the socalled militarists is to give to the body of our people some idea of what the problem really is. The voter, not the intellectual man, is to decide this question in the end, and he (and the college man as well) need enlightenment on this subject...
Among the stories R. S. Mitchell's "The China Billiken" too obviously patterns after Stevenson's "Markheim," lacking, however, the rationale which makes that a case suggestive of a universal problem. The character study "Truth is Stranger" involves definite types and fairly accurate dialect in a story which, true or not, might well have been sacrificed to one more plausible. Nature perhaps, but not art, "looks after her freaks." One doubts, too, whether "Kernham! Wow!" will strike many as congruous with a Maine handy man. A really charming narrative, allegedly autobiographical, in the manner of Rhibany, is Ben Lion Trynin...
...some cases, also, students have not been able to take laboratory courses as these have interfered with athletics. Morning laboratory periods have been arranged, but owing to the large number of students who can not devote an entire morning to one subject, this plan has failed to solve the problem...
...Lunn served in the Spanish War in the Third Nebraska Infantry and has since kept well in touch with the armament question in this country. He will discuss the conflict between opportunism and Socialist principle in the attitude toward militarism, advancing his own solution of the problem...
...same time undergoing a more extensive and intensive practical military training than that now required of other students." These departments should, he declares, be established by Federal appropriations, the cost of each of which should not exceed $20,000 per year. Such a plan would well solve our present problem...