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Three eminent Democrats held a premature political convention of their own last week in the letters columns of the New York Times, where they were certain of getting a wider audience than they could enjoy at Philadelphia week after next. Naming no slate, they nevertheless drew up an epistolary platform which contained, among other originalities, the declaration that the "national policy followed by this Administration ... is profoundly reactionary." The signatories to these sentiments were Woodrow Wilson's Wartime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, Franklin Roosevelt's first Budget Director Lewis William Douglas and Leo Wolman, who served...
...same way as the proportions of body, head and face of animals born in captivity change when compared with their wild-born ancestors, thus the bodily proportions of man undergo minute changes in new environment. In some types the forms of head and face of immigrants are wider than those of their children. . . . These changes do not obliterate differences between genetic types, but they show that the type as we see it contains elements that are not genetic...
...were mostly unaware that the late great German Army had been made up of human beings. To the few that read it, a little book called Way of Sacrifice, by a Prussian officer who had fought before Verdun, came with the shock of revelation. Few months later a much wider U. S. audience was discovering The Case of Sergeant Grischa. Though it never became such an enormous seller as All Quiet on the Western Front, it soon ranked as a modern classic, has sold nearly 250,000 copies in English translation alone. Those two novels (both German) were generally admitted...
This Virginian aristocrat, whose natural ability and profession of the law drove him against his inclinations into public life, had the same background, the same attitude as Washington, but a "far wider" range of intellectual and esthetic interests. A fine figure of a man (his sandy hair was six feet two inches from the ground) and brave, but no soldier, he served the Revolution in Congress and as Governor of Virginia. When Jefferson was Washington's Secretary of State Alexander Hamilton was Secretary of the Treasury, and out of their struggles to control Father Washington's ear arose...
...field of Physical Anthropology, for example, has requirements in Zoology, heredity, vetebrate palaeontology, mammalian biology, comparative anatomy and statistics. Thus, a candidate primarily interested in Physical Anthropology has a far wider training in fields allied to this subject and is relieved of the necessity of mastering a mass of facts and theories on the social and religious life of aboriginal groups in all parts of the world. If a candidate wishes the latter information, he selects General Ethnography or Ethnology and Social Anthropology, in which he widens his approach by selecting specified courses in history, sociology and psychology...