October 1909
In This Issue
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Articles
The Standing of Scholarship in America
A founding father of applied psychology expresses concern that permissiveness in the classroom has gone too far
American Ships and the Way to Get Them
Old Lady Pratt's Spectacles
The Passing of the Promised Land
A Path to the Woods
Trade-Unions and the Individual Worker
The Battle of the Wilderness
The Lawyer's Function
Thought-Drift
Marco Polo and the European Expansion of the Middle Ages
The Destroyer of Homes
The Edge of Night
Seven Sandwichmen on Broadway
The Diary of Gideon Welles
Sincerity in Autobiography
Out of the Chrysalis
The College and the Freshman
On the Planting of Cabbages
The Payne Tariff Law
Flying Kites
A College of Cachinnation
To Abate a Familiar Nuisance
When Poets Have to Speak a Piece
Expected Greatness
