GOOD ENGLISH IN THE GRADES Every teacher realizes the importance of THIS series transforms the ideals of elementary English teaching into realities. Some of the ways in which it does this are: It provides an unusual amount of oral work,-over two hundred exercises. It is rich in models which inspire the pupil with self-confidence and arouse It correlates oral and written work, and it definitely relates grammar facts It provides sufficient repetition to develop good habits in speech and writing. The authors are HENRY CARR PEARSON, Principal, and MARY FREDERIKA KIRCHWEY, Instructor, THE WEEK IN REVIEW AN AMERICAN DIVISION IN FRANCE. The event of the week, in the history of the war, is the safe arrival in France of a seasoned American division of regular troops, under the immediate command of Major General Sibert. Last week, it was the floating of "Old Glory" over Irish waters which thrilled Americans; this week it is the appearance of "Old Glory" and the regiments of American soldiers marching under it "somewhere in France" which has thrilled Americans and their allies, and has evoked a rapturous welcome from the French forces. The assembling of these troops and of the transports to carry them and of the naval convoy which protected them was managed with a secrecy so complete that nothing was known of the preparations until the Once divison was safely been again, the submarines baffled. across. have THE RED CROSS CAMPAIGN. The history of the Liberty Loan campaign has repeated itself in the In both inRed Cross campaign. stances, there were days of depression and of apparently flagging interest and anticipations of disappointing results, followed by spirited effort and patriotic appeal, ending in a total of subscriptions in one case and of gifts of the in the other far in excess amounts originally fixed. If it was a that four million splendid thing American citizens, at short notice and largely in small amounts, should subscribe nearly three billion dollars to the Government war loan, when only two billion were called for, it is a no less splendid thing that the country, in a ten-days' campaign, should make a free gift of considerably more than one hundred million dollars for and sick of American the care inIn both wounded in the war. stances, it points to every one "doing his bit." WAR PROHIBITION. Nation-wide prohibition looms on the horizon, now that the House of Representatives, by the overwhelming vote of 365 to 5, has passed the administration food control bill, with a section forbidding the use of foods or food materials for the manufacture of alcoholic beverages written into it. The bill, as drawn, gave the President discretionary authority to limit or restrict the amount of grain or foodstuffs used in the manufacture of alcoholic beverages, but the section which the House struck out all discretionary authority and inserted an absolute prohibition of the manufacture of alcohol or alunder a possible coholic beverages, penalty of $5,000 fine or two years' Never before has imprisonment. there been such a fluttering among the distillers and brewers. substituted prohibition to the brewers. But the President remonstrated with the Senate leaders, partly on the ground that the measure, in that form, would be so drastic as to arouse wide-spread opposition, and partly on the ground that there was great need of haste in the enactment of the food administration bill. The legislative committee of the Anti-Saloon League, which had been laboring for the complete bill, itself yielded to the President's urgent appeal for prompt action, and agreed that it would do nothing to occasion delay in the enactment of the the bill. The prohibition upon manufacture of distilled spirits from any foodstuffs remains absolute, and the commandeering section of the bill is also retained, under which the President will have power to shut off the use of whiskey now in bond, in case of national exigency. THE EXPORTS COUNCIL. The Exports Council, authorized by a section of the so-called espionage bill, has already been constituted by the President's appointment, and its machinery has been set in motion. It consists of the secretaries of state, agriculture and commerce, and Mr. Hoover, the food administrator. Through a series of proclamations the President will require a system of licensing for every class of exports to European neutral countries. It will interfere as little as may be with the free play of trade, but will be directed with reference first to our own necessities, and then those of our armies and the armies of our allies, and finally those of neutrals. Especial measures will be taken keep a close check upon re-exports from neutral countries, and to see to it that American supplies do not cross the German border. There has been considerable laxity in this particular which, it is to be hoped, will now be checked. CONCESSIONS AS TO COAL. to It will be a relief to distressed householders, viewing their empty coal bins and meditating upon a stiffly-maintained midsummer price of nine and a half dollars per ton for coal, to learn that the leading coal operators of the country, representing the great fields of anthracite and bituminous coal, have pledged themselves to sell their product at a fair and reasonable price to be fixed by special committees, with the approval of the coal committee of the defence council. This pledge, to be sure, was made after the producers had been warned that, unless they themselves established a fair selling price and proper regulation of the industry, their output would be taken over by the Government. But all the same, the net result is that the socalled "coal barons" are not to fix exorbitant prices for their product, whether for the individual consumer or for the Government or for the Allies. again. The most decisive proof of changed conditions is the resignation of the Zaimis Cabinet, and the summons sent by the young King Alexander to the former Premier Venizelos to form a new cabinet. Venizelos is the foremost Greek statesman of his time. He enjoys the confidence of the Greek people as no other man does, as was shown repeatedly when he was struggling against the unconstitutional measures of Constantine. He had for some time, after his final break with the King, maintained a provisional government, mistakenly described as "revolutionary," when the real revolution was that brought about by Constantine, when he treated the Greek Constitution as "a scrap of paper." GREECE AND ITALY. We have a faint foreshadowing of some of the post-bellum questions which are to trouble European councils after the strife of arms is over in the relations of Italy and Greece. Italy has occupied parts of Epirus. Italian troops have entered Greece, taken possession of the city of Janina and instituted Italian_military courts there-all this while Constantine was dealing treacherously with the Allies and acting as a tool of the Kaiser. But, with Greece relieved of Constantine, and apparently intending at an early date to re-enforce the Allies with direct military support, the situation is changed. Greece will be reluctant to act, if she is to lose Epirus. There is a conflict between Italian and Greek aspirations also in Asia Minor. No one can envy the European statesmen and diplomats when after the war, they sit down to find a just and peaceful adjustment of these and similar problems. AUSTRIA CRUMBLING? The repeated attempts to form a cabinet in Austria-Hungary have failed, and there is nothing to show for them but a feeble provisional ministry headed by Dr. von Seydler, for the passing of the budget. There are no less than eighteen political groups in the Reichsrath, and the differences between them are irreconcilable, being based on sharp racial divisions. The chief antagonism is between the Czechs and the Germans. The Czechs number between six and seven million, and are affiliated with the Poles, who number about four and a quarter million. The Austrian Germans number in all not more than nine million, but they have thus far succeeded in dominating the country. Whether they can continue to do so indefinitely is an open question. The national spirit is stirring among the Poles, who crave the restoration of the kingdom of Poland, and the Czechs are so bitter against the Germans that one Czech regiment after another has surrendered bodily to the Russians or has thrown down its arms rather than fight for the Kaiser. ON THE VERGE OF WAR. Norway seems to be on the verge of war. 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Crowded curricula, multiform 'student activities, and all the full steam and weighted throttles of modern efficiency are pushing out of college life just the one element that should be characteristic of it-time; time for rumination, day-dreaming, thought."-Robert M. Gay, in the January Atlantic. The sense of this paragraph above is so precisely that of a little article that I put together a few months ago (the manuscript has been lost), that I am constrained to use it as the text, or the cue, of another outbreak perhaps still briefer, but equally heartfelt. Let us consider the students; the faculty can take care of themselves. My key-note, too, was Leisure. And I emphasized its obvious and ever-increasing lack as a step in just the wrong educational direction in these early years of the twentieth century; as the road to the yesterday of all mental (and physical) hygiene; as education in the very thing which it is most essential should be ignored. "Hurry!"but whither? "Hustle!"-but wherefore? "Strive unceasingly!”—but the Personality that is each of them, within each poor sleepy (or else stimulated, "hectic") boy and girl, has small interest and takes no proper part in this college "strife," but crouches, as if neglected and abused. clearly should not be. This And it is indeed a sad thing to see what hurrying restlessness dominates the life in some of the very finest of our colleges today; the breathlessness of it all; the fearsome figure to which the physiologic pressure-gage points; and, above all, the deeper and invidious meaning that this timelack must have for the life-long training of these women and these men. When in all the long years, or in the short few years, of their life will these people have time to educate themselves if not in the college years when it is the allotted task? Perhaps the present writer feels the inherent contrast and the present lack more strongly than some would feel it because he lived the four years while first a student, among the varied natural beauties at the meeting-line of fair Vermont and fairer New Hampshire, on the shore of the Connecticut River, where else than at Hanover! Old Dartmouth had then more to offer than "efficiency" or if no more, then at least a real efficiency that included a self-reliance, a self-respect, an appreciation of Whence? and Whither? and sometimes of Why?, in short, a soul. And Mount Pineo and the beautiful River and Ascutney and Norwich and all up and down the long road (even) from Canada to the Sound!) made part of the curriculum which gave each (if he only cared for it!) a chance to learn himself. And what Dartmouth did then every college else can do, each in its good own way, if it only makes the good start to try. Columbia, even, in the midst of the earth's largest town, has human selves to train and could find a way, through the planning of some ingenious son or daughter, to see to it that in no case would a serious student think himself ever a machine or his world only a vortex of easily definable energies, of dollars, or of whatever else the efficiency-world uses to count its successes with. But to view the education or the part of it which leisure can give as an affair only of philosophical esthetics, as a matter wholly of "soul" and personality in the sense discussed so delightfully by many poets and by men who were poets under some other name, were to wholly underestimate the practical versatility of human motives and of human wills. F. H. Bradley's resistless logic has made pragmatists of many, and brought closer together in the thought of numerous men and women the practical values, measurable sometimes even in gold, and those other values, more lasting perhaps, which leisure, and therethrough thought, alone can give. Bodily strength and bodily endurance, good health, happiness, personality, "soul," form a sort of series, an ascending series, if you prefer it so, which mill-managers and shop-treasurers have learned or will learn to measure accurately some day by units and in terms which every citizen will fully understand. The colleges should have foreseen this and effectively felt it all the time, handing it down as almost their highest wisdom to every freshman who rises into the sophomore class. One must "commune with herself" or become mechanized; one must escape that insistent "Hurry! Hustle! Strive!" or lose that one special attribute which marks off the human, not from. brute alone, but from the brass and iron and wood machine which man, rather than God, has made. The whole tearful world cries out for honor and for justice and almost harshly for humanity above all. Will the college, too, deny these to the boys and girls who are trusting her to help make them, not organic machines, alone, but real women and men? In some institutions of learning the reaction already has actively begun-in theory at any rate. The following editorial from the Boston Herald suggests one obvious way out of this evil tendency, but not the best, perhaps, in these days when Prophylaxis is the prophetic slogan of clear seers. "Take care that your studies don't interfere with your college course.' This ancient 'gag,' probably from Horace or some other classic, must have been in the minds of the 'joint council'— |