| Description |
xii, 399 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Includes "Questions on the text" and "Theme subjects" for each essay. |
| Contents |
I. College Life and its Problems -- "Under Glass" / Percy Marks -- Oxford as I see it / Stephen Leacock -- Student activities in the college / Alexander Meiklejohn -- Sport versus athletics / Robert Kilburn Root -- Intercollegiate Athletics and the war / Le Baron Russell Briggs -- The fraternity and the college / Thomas Arkle Clark -- America's young radicals / George Santayana -- Women's part in the new renaissance / Lucie A. Zimmern -- II. Some Liberal Ideals of Education -- Castles in Spain / John Galsworthy -- History is one / H.G. Wells -- Science from the sidelines / Edwin E. Slosson -- Homer and Humbug / Stephen Leacock -- Sentimental America / Henry Seidel Canby -- The national literature / H.L. Mencken -- The goon and his style / Frederick L. Allen -- III. Social and Political Standards -- The seven lamps of politics / Glenn Frank -- Woman enthroned / Agnes Repplier -- The menace to journalism / Roscoe C. E. Brown -- Low-grade citizens / Simeon Strunsky -- Hey, rub-a-dub-dub / Theodore Dreiser -- Good-bye, America! / H.W. Nevinson -- The dodging of pressures / Randolph S. Bourne -- IV. The Case for World Peace -- War / George Santayana -- The future of militarism / G. Lowes Dickinson -- Free speech in peace and war / William Allen White -- A potential substitute for war / Percy MacKaye -- Told by the schoolmaster / John Galsworthy -- V. Culture and Life -- Americanism: Selective or sentimental / Glenn Frank -- "Highbrow" and "Lowbrow" / Van Wyck Brooks -- Beyond life / James Branch Cabell -- Quality / John Galsworthy -- Science and religion / Robert Andrews Millikan. |
| Subject |
American essays.
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American essays. |
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English essays.
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English essays. |
| Added Author |
Henry, Ralph L. (Ralph Ledyard)
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| Added Title |
Essays in modern thought |
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