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...work, Professor Sherman begins with the essay which gives the book its title. As a jumping-off point, he describes a "boosters dinner" which has been thrown into consternation by the representative of the arts who refuses to have anything to do with the apostles of "pep and progress". The dinner incident past, we have the author's own point of view. Firmly yet gently, he would lead the talent of America from the footsteps of W. L. George, Theodore Dresier and Mr. Spingarn. Instead he would have them turn to Emerson and Whitman and Thoreau. Produce literature which "socializes...
...right start is found in American "moral idealism." We are never quite sure what "moral idealism" is. In some mysterious way, Professor Sherman shifts his point of view. Reading these later essays, we discover that all the time he has been trying to reconcile the apostles of "pep and progress" and the young people who look for a means of "self-expression." He would have the former realize that literature is a great force in the nation, that it has a place in the State University along with the science of making a hundred bushels of wheat grow where...
...most debatable subject is the progress of "Sunday legislation". Theatres, baseball games and all kinds of amusement have been the targets of the Lord's Day Alliance, and brilliant success is claimed in the South and West. While three states have let down the bars, six have moved forward toward perfection and prohibitions. But as the militant reactionaries point out, the three states which have retrogressed to more freedom are New York, Connecticut and Oregon with large and important populations; and conversely, the "good" states are mostly rural, thinly inhabited and poor fields for theatrical exploitation anyway...
While archaeologists and paleontologists are uncovering extinct monsters and ancient races, a corresponding outbreak of interest in the natural history of existing animals is in progress. Numerous expeditions are daily finding rare or previously unknown species. Many of these expeditions are supported by the American Museum of Natural History...
...confined largely to middle life and old age, and is higher in the northern than the southern states, although this is not due to the race factor. Cancer is curable-if taken in time. Surgery and deep X-ray or radium treatment are so far the only proved remedies. Progress in the latter methods has recently been rapid. But the rub lies just in the fact that the malady is seldom discovered until it is too late when the lawless growth of the cancer cells has gotten a fatal hold on the healthy tissue...