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Today a nation-wide campaign starts to raise "a million dollars for a million books for a million men." It is to continue throughout what has been dubbed Camp Library Week. The Library War Council appointed by the Secretary of War intends to erect a comfortable library and fill it with good books at each of the thirty-two cantonments and the numerous training camps. This short explanation of the Council's aim is enough in itself. We need bestow no elaborate praise on so worthy a motive for raising money, since he who wrote "We may live without books...
...undergraduate Liberty Bond committee and sub-committee last night plans were made for the canvassing of the University for subscribers to the loan. Each member of the sub-committee will cover an assigned dormitory or entry in order to explain personally to every man the necessity for a wide and popular response and the advantages of such a response to the individual...
...those men who are not called to go with the first chosen army, there must come a great measure of desolation at knowing how brief will be the service of these young men. There will not be one person in this wide nation who will not have a close friend leave at the first call. They who remain may trust, with that vague and lasting trust which is given to mortals, that those who are the crosest to them will some way be spared in the blind lot of battle. But such trust is sad and futile when we realize...
...Calvert's wide experience in England has made him a well-known theatrical figure in two continents. He played the part of Undershaft when G. B. Shaw's "Major Barbara" was first produced in London: and he played the same part when Grace George revived the play last year...
...paths lead far and wide...