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Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume35 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 35
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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the land. Hence we publish this part inThe Arena somewhat earlier than we had intend-ed. The chapter on the Initiative will followshortly. What Our Universities Are Doing for AnLiterature: The paper which we publish this monthfrom the able pen of Edwin Davtbs Schoonmajcek,the scholarly author of The Saxons, is of far morethan passing value. It is one of those fundamentaland extremely important discussions mat shouldreceive the serious attention not only of all educa-tors, but of all persons aspiring to do great andworthy literary work. We believe the author hasplaced his finger on the chief cause of our failureto develop a great American literature. Ourmethods are wrong, or if not entirely wrong theyleave the most vital side of literary training un-touched. And what is true in literature is meas-urably true in art and in education in general.This paper is, we believe, one of the most sugges-tively helpful educational discussions of recentmonths. Digitized by Google Digitized by Google
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HON. ROBERT M. La FOLLETTE Photo, by E. R. Curtiss. Madison. Wit. The Arrna Google %l We do not take pomttitm of our ideal, but are poeeeteed by them,They matter ue and force us into the arena.Where, Uke glcuOatort, we mutt fight for them.Hume. The Arena Vol. S5 Junk, 1906 No. 199 THE CIVIC EFFICIENCY OF THE EDUCATED CLASS. By Henbt M. Whitney. IN 1864, in a Washington hospital, avolunteer helper came upon a privatesoldier, a Swede. The man had a tedioustime before him, with doubtful result,but he took everything patiently, with aquiet strength of heart. He was a grad-uate of the University of Lund, and thank-ful to get good reading in almost anylanguage, but he preferred the English,as he meant to make this country hishome. Why did you come to Americaand enlist? I heard that there wasa war over here. I meant to come hereto live, and I wanted to pay for my citi-zenship at the gate. To this tale of an immigrant may wellbe joined a bit from the service of anAmerican native. He was a rec

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