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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 8 No. 1, Charles A. Glatt, John T. Hubbell, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Dewey W. Grantham, Burton J. Williams, George J. Groman, A. J. Allen, Jesse Forbeck, Edsel Ford, Philip E. Burnham Jr., Leonard Gilley, Emilie Glen, Rose Menendian, Michael Paul Novak, Tracy Thompson, Barbara Fowler, Imogene L. Bolls, Kenneth C. Gaertner

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in this issue. . .

ANNUALLY, as summer ends and fall arrives, another academic year begins, and, for seven years now, THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY issues the first number of a new volume. Here is Number 1 of Volume VIII containing our usual variety and somewhat more. Occasionally recollecting our pedagogical mission, we turn to the field of education; more frequently we find space for an essay or two on history or historians, although subjects from American literature easily lead in any tabulation of our titles. We cannot say, with the late Somerset Maugham, "The mixture as before," nor can we …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 7 No. 4, Paul Mccarthy, John Fraser, James W. Tuttleton, Abigail Ann Hamblen, Walter Shear, L. W. Michaelson, Tracy Thompson, Charles L. Squier, E. F. Weisslitz, Emilie Glen, Sam Bradley, James Binney, Margaret B. Purcell, Nils Peterson, Jesse Forbeck, Stuart Friebert, John Taylor

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PRECEDENTS for a summer literary number are easy to find; our last three July issues come instantly to mind, but the tradition is far older than 1963. Summer used to be a leisurely season, replete with long lazy afternoons, lawns sloping gently down to water, frosted pitchers of lemonade, and books-from Hervey Allen to Stefan Zweig, Dreiser, Faulkner, Fielding, Fitzgerald, Hardy, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Howells, Sterne, Trollope, Turgenev, Zola, and a hundred others. Summer reading was an institution; there was time for it and its deepest enjoyment. The institution was a good one, memorable and permanently …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 7 No. 3, Roy Lechtreck, Timothy Mcdonald, John Q. Reed, William Hanchett, Leonard Gilley, Stanley Trachtenberg, James Binney, Thomas Brumbaugh, Jesse Forbeck, Stuart Friebert, Leonard Gilley, Arthur Kistner, Ann Jonas, Charles L. Squier, Patricia R. King, Paul B. Newman, Mary Oliver, Tracy Thompson

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in this issue. . .

CHARACTERISTICALLY earthbound, the editors of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY have kept their feet on the ground in the selection of material for publication this spring. Let Armstrong and Scott take their rides in the sky and their walks in space (better luck next time!). Born into this world too early, we leave other worlds, their discovery and exploration, to younger spirits. Here there is enough, were there time. Enough? Too much this spring. For us it is enough to range from enlightened British imperialism on the Gold Coast to the origins of ebullient American imperialism at …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol 7. No. 2, Archie J. Bahm, Frederick H. Schapsmeier, Edward Schapsmeier, Ernest F. Dibble, Edmond P. Odescalchi, Richard Gustafson, Sy Kahn, Peter Wild, T. A. Browne, Burton L. Carlson, Charles Edward Eaton, A. D. Freeman, Edward Locke, Leonard Gilley, Stanwood Bolton Jr., John Judson, Michael Paul Novak, Menke Katz, Leonard S. Bernstein

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in this issue. . .

ACKNOWLEDGING the fact of last month's outer-space rendezvous of Gemini 6 and 7 is one thing; realization of its meaning and ultimate significance is quite another. To groundlings in Southeast Kansas, the whole magnificent but virtually incredible achievement is too far out rationally as well as spatially. Moreover, there seems to us to be a more than ample supply of earthbound (even earthy) problems which cry for attention, questions which require fuller discussion, matters more immediate than moon-shots. The contents of this winter issue demonstrate our prior involvement in matters more humane and, to us …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 7 No. 1, John G. Clark, Sterling Fishman, D. B. Griffiths, Elizabeth B. Drewry, Jack W. Vanderhoof, Mary Graham Lund, Patricia Lamb, Paul B. Newman, Walter W. Stevens, Arnold Falleder, Florence J. Goodman, Sanford Sternlicht, Tracy Thompson, Emilie Glen, Edsel Ford, Victor Contoski, William W. Debolt

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CURRENT EVENTS often have a disturbing way of making contemporary thought seem irrelevant, and yet the history of the past summer rather underscores the relevance of our selections for this first number of Volume VII of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY. None of the articles here published bears directly on the death of Adlai E. Stevenson, the build-up of U.S. forces in Vietnam, blind violence in Los Angeles, passage of far-reaching legislation by Congress, or the outbreak of war between India and Pakistan. Nevertheless, on page after page of this issue our six discussions touch sensitive and …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 6 No. 4, Paul B. Newman, Abigail Ann Hamblen, Leonard Gilley, Robert N. Hertz, Robert L. Perry, William H. Nolte, Bernice Ames, Branley A. Branson, E. H. Bales, Sam Bradley, Beverly Brunson, E. Wesley Walton, E. F. Weisslitz

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TURNABOUT is not only fair play but very nearly a modus operandi in the annals of this journal. Last January when she brought out the winter issue of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY as its acting editor-in-chief, Rebecca Patterson modestly and cleverly announced that that issue belonged to the then absent editor. Rather wistfully she wrote then of time off, rest, re-creation, and of the human need for "that holiday of the spirit that comes with putting the old routine behind . . . and sallying into fresh fields, . . ." Now in June she has …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 6 No. 3, William Welch, C. F. Burgess, Baljit Singh, Burton J. Williams, R. D. Lakin, F. G. Goodman, Stuart Friebert, James Ruoff, B. L. Carlson, John Clarke, A. D. Freeman, James Hearst, Tracy Thompson, Don Welch, Joseph Joel Keith

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in this issue. . .

GENERALLY SPEAKING, spring is a non-political season. Certainly, with the snow and ice melting away, the winds of March rattling the windows, and the elm buds burgeoning against the blue sky, political practice and theory seem to belong somewhere else in time and space. But, the news constantly, forceably, shockingly thrusts politics into eye, heart, mind, and viscera every day, whether that news comes from Saigon, Selma, Topeka, or Washington. Your American is first and foremost a political animal. If he isn't he needs to be. John Adams and Tom Jefferson understood this; Henry Thoreau …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol 6. No. 2, C. N. Stavrou, Carleton Mabee, Warren O. Ault, Merrill J. Mattes, William D. Aeschbacher, James T. King, James Worley, Robert Clayton Casto, Lucian Stryk, John Judson, Leonard Gilley, William Sallar, Charles Eaton, Tracy Thompson, Mary Graham Lund, Margaret B. Purcell, David Pearson Etter

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EVERY laborer, and particularly the editor of such a journal as THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY, is deserving of a little time off. Not only does he need to rest and recruit himself, but more importantly he needs that holiday of the spirit that comes with putting the old routine behind him and sallying into fresh fields, from which, hopefully, he will bring back a rich harvest. There is also, we are bound to add, a very human need of recognition and appreciation, and he will never be more appreciated than when he is missed. Not a …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol 6. No. 1, Howard N. Meyer, E. B. Smith, Donald R. Mccoy, Bill G. Reid, Ernest Eugene Helm, Rebecca Patterson, Robert Lewis Weeks, Eugene Brooks, James A. Emanuel, David Pearson Etter, Edsel Ford, Leonard Gilley, Margaret B. Purcell, Sy Kahn, Mary Graham Lund, John Stevens Wade, Hollis Summers, James Worley

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LOOKING FORWARD as we began Volume V a year ago, we predicted "a number of articles on aspects of American politics, American foreign policy, and American internal problems" in our issues for 1964. Our record demonstrates the accuracy of our prediction. So for that matter do the contents of this issue. From Edmund Wilson to Emily Dickinson, from Thomas Hart Benton (the Missouri Senator, not the Missouri artist) to Alf Landon, from the agrarian myth to the relatively new discipline of musicology, we present another diverse combination of discussions for your fall fare. CERTAINLY no …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 5 No. 4, Rebecca Patterson, Epifanio San Juan Jr., Frank J. Anderson, Elmo Howell, Richard French, John W. Willcoxon Iii, Bernice Ames, Peter Lorden, Branley Branson, James Hearst, Menke Katz, Michael Paul Novak, Mary Oliver, Tracy Thompson, Emilie Glen, Richard Schramm, Sanford Sternlicht, Leonard Bernstein

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in this issue. . .

FOLLOWING the pattern of a year ago, this is our summer literary issue. Whether we can set it down as a hard and fast rule that every future summer issue will be literary, it is impossible to say at this writing. Our five years of publishing experience indicate that we can expect to continue to receive an abundance of manuscripts treating literary subjects--probably at a ratio of three to two over all other subjects. This makes it relatively easy if not down right good sense to devote at least one issue a year to literature. …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 5 No. 3, John Manning, Edmond P. Odescalchi, Hans Beerman, Robert N. Hertz, Charles R. Metzger, Myron Levoy, Emilie Glen, Fred Moeckel, Gordon Gilsdorf, James Worley, Leonard S. Bernstein, John Clarke, Patricia Lamb, Jack Bobbitt, Albert W. Vogel, A. D. Freeman

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INITIALLY we had ambitious, even extravagant, plans for this spring number, plans involving a variety of essays from key members of the United States Senate and the House of Representatives as well as a carefully selected covey of candidates for the Republican presidential nomination. Quite obviously, the Congress has been busy of late, although its business is not always as fruitful as many would hope. And that New Hampshire primary on March 10 rather alters calculations regarding the GOP standard-bearer for 1964. In mid-February one of the (then) leading (?) candidates in that primary wrote …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 5 No. 2, James W. Vander Zanden, A. J. Shakeshaft, E. H. Shakeshaft, Homer Obed Brown, Florence Jeanne Goodman, Donald Atwell Zoll, Eric Solomon, Menke Katz, John Clarke, Stuart Friebert, Emilie Glen, Robert Ward, Tracy Thompson, William Sallar, John Judson

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

A JOURNAL of contemporary thought cannot and ought not become a journal of current events; editorial and production problems alone prevent this. There are occasions, however, when events are of such transcendent importance and impact that they require immediate attention--even by academics who tend to prefer a measure of detachment if only for the development or emergence of perspective. One such event was the "Jobs and Freedom" march in Washington, D. C., last August 28. Thanks primarily to television coverage, it had a tremendous and immediate impact on all Americans who cared to look and …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol 5. No. 1, Donald R. Key, Mark Plummer, Merlin D. Gustafson, Kent Tool, Barry D. Bort, Felix M. Wassermann, Fred Moeckel, Tracy Thompson, A. D. Freeman, James Binney, Wendell B. Anderson, Donald Atwell Zoll, Howard Smith Jr., Leonard Gilley, Myron Levoy, Emilie Glen

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in this issue. . .

BEGINNING our fifth year of publication with this issue, we continue our policy of variety in the subject matter of the articles here presented, from musicology to historiography, from Formosa to the United Kingdom, from Jacob Burckhardt to Robert Frost. We count ourselves fortunate in having discovered discussions suitable for inclusion in a journal of contemporary thought and in receiving unsolicited contributions which quickly won editorial acceptance. As in our first four years, we start this new volume confident in the role and objectives of our journal and reassured by continued growth in the number …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 4 No. 4, R. D. Lakin, James Ruoff, Elizabeth Brown, Homer Brown, Lionel D. Wyld, Charles Cagle, Annette K. Baxter, Patricia R. Plante, Wendell B. Anderson, Emilie Glen, James Binney, Barbara Denholm, A. D. Freeman, Robert P. Dickey, Stuart Friebert, Myron Levoy, Donald Atwell Zoll

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in this issue. . .

BY MIDWINTER it had become obvious to the editors that it would be possible to devote our summer issue to American Literature exclusively. Before the winds of March had blown in April's rain, the editors had decided to produce a special summer literary number; this was made possible by our possession of a good supply of interesting, important, and varied analyses of several aspects of American artistic and literary life. This issue, therefore, begins with an incisive essay on the generally unhappy position of the writer in American culture, and succeeding articles treat not only …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 4 No. 3, Morris L. Stevens, Michael L. Lasser, Merton Shatzkin, Arthur M. Sampley, James Steel Smith, Leo Sandon Jr., Barbara Denholm, Tracy Thompson, Edsel Ford, Don Eulert, Emilie Glen, Marion Schoeberlein, Mary Oliver, Nils T. Peterson

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in this issue. . .

OBVIOUSLY, controversy is characteristic of most discussions of questions of contemporary importance. While the editors of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY deliberately selected controversial articles for inclusion in our last (January) issue, it was not our aim or objective to make this issue controversial to the same degree. Examination of our table of contents, however, and closer examination of the six discussions therein, will undoubtedly disclose and generate as much controversy as our last issue. It may be that questions arising from Dr. Samuel Johnson's visit to Scotland (just before the American Revolution broke out) will not …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 4 No. 2, Allan Larson, Florence J. Goodman, Millard S. Everett, Fred L. Parrish, Virginia Mosely, William L. Burton, Howard Smith, A. D. Freeman, Donald Atwell Zoll, Tracy Thompson, Mary Oliver, Edsel Ford, John Knoepfle

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in this issue. . .

CONTROVERSY is the ingredient common to all six articles appearing on the following pages. Subject matter ranges widely from the nature of life to the nature of revolution, from contemporary drama to one of the most ancient faiths known to man, from arms control to James Joyce. Another characteristic common to these half dozen essays is their ability to stimulate rather strong reader reactions: in every case, the editors of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY were anything but ambivalent in their comments. Since this is or purports to be a journal of contemporary thought, it seems entirely …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 4 No. 1, Ralph Behrens, Bernard F. Engel, Thomas W. Ford, Charles R. Metzger, John Q. Reed, Walter Shear, Florence J. Goodman, L. W. Michaelson, Edsel Ford, Marion Schoeberlein, Menke Katz, R. William Conrad

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in this issue. . .

DURING the absence of our hardworking editor-in-chief this past summer the responsibility of seeing the October issue through the press has devolved upon the advisory editor in literature with the helpful assistance of the editorial board. Lest the substitute appear to be claiming too much, she would like to point out that Professor Cornish left his desk in excellent condition, with a supply of articles and poems already chosen, and it was his idea that there would be a certain appropriateness in publishing a special literary number under the temporary guidance of the literary editor. …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 3 No. 4, James L. Pauley, Alice R. Kaminsky, Charles J. Dellasega, Stuart Levine, Hans Beerman, Julia Pernat, James Binney, Marion Schoeberlein, Bob Wootton, L. W. Michaelson, Tracy Thompson

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in this issue. . .

READER reaction is always unpredictable. Some praised the strong concentration on contemporary continental, hemispheric, and world problems in our April issue; others expressed the hope that R. D. Lakin's essay, ''Philosophy and the Missing Purpose," indicated a new editorial direction; still others criticized the limitation of literary criticism to a single article, Richard Rupp's succinct analysis of Hart Crane's masterful treatment of Brooklyn Bridge in his "Atlantis." In the face of wide and uncorrelated demand, the editors have concluded to present a summer issue defying easy categorization. To round our Volume III we present a …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 3 No. 3, John Manning, James L. Busey, James C. Carey, Edwin C. Hoyt, R. D. Lakin, Richard H. Rupp, Joseph Joel Keith, Harold Isbell, Robert L. Weeks, James Knight, Arnold Falleder, Robert W. King

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in this issue. . .

WHILE critical comments on our January issue were uniformly favorable and even flattering, the editors were conscious of a sort of unspoken criticism of its rather narrow concentration of subject matter. Certainly Sherwood Anderson, Winston Churchill, William Dean Howells, and William Allen White are all significant figures in American life and letters, but a journal of contemporary thought ought to have more than one article per issue treating current problems. A quick glance at the table of contents of this issue will indicate that THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY is not about to lose its franchise. The …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 3 No. 2, Robert W. Sellen, Florence J. Goodman, Arlene Bates Kirk, Clinton Keeler, David D. Anderson, Walter I. Trattner, James C. Waugh, David W. Noble, Robert W. Schneider, Miriam M. Heffernan, Alberta Turner

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in this issue. . .

THE GRATIFYING RECEPTION our more discerning readers gave the first two articles in our October number ( "Alternative to Futility" and "The Case of Harold Rugg") encouraged the editors to select another discussion of the problems of higher education in America for inclusion in this issue. An increasingly broad variety of manuscripts coming our way has made possible the selection of four other articles within the general area of twentieth century American life and letters, with particular emphasis on letters. From the tidal wave of verse contributions which threatened for a time to inundate us …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 3 No.1, Lloyd P. Williams, Marion Schoeberlein, Franklin Parker, William M. Panter, Karel Hulicka, Emilie Glen, S. J. Sackett, Homer E. Socolofsky, L. W. Michaelson

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in this issue. . .

AS THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY begins its third year of publication, the editors present an issue containing articles on our customarily wide variety of subjects. In this issue, however, we present our first discussions of American education. In view of the fact that this journal is the successor to The Educational Leader published by this college for over twenty years, it may seem a little strange that it has taken us so long to arrive at this point. The explanation is an easy one: we have made it a rule to use only the best of …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 2 No. 4, James W. Vander Zanden, Marion Schoeberlein, Felix Wassermann, Bruce Cutler, B. R. Mcelderry Jr., E. H. Templin, William Startt, William Fox Jr.

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in this issue. . .

WITH this number, THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY rounds out its second volume and thus completes two years of publication. It seems obvious to the editors at least that this milestone has more significance than the mere issuance of the eighth consecutive number of our quarterly. In a very real sense, this publication has reached a kind of maturity, the basic evidence of which is contained in the table of contents in this issue. From its inception, it has been our aim to offer a broad selection of articles on various subjects of contemporary significance. Throughout our …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol 2. No. 3, Barry Goldwater, Hubert H. Humphrey, E. H. Templin, Hans Beerman, Harold Brodbar, Raymond Roseliep, Elizabeth Cochran, Russell Goldfarb, Clare Goldfarb

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in this issue. . .

THIS is the political spring of a political year. The "first hundred days" of the Kennedy Administration are about to become history, and there are other activities on the American and the midwestern scenes which are essentially political in nature and/ or origin. The Centennial of Kansas statehood has officially begun, and the Centennial of the American Civil War likewise. More importantly, rank-and-file Americans seem to be taking more interest in political activities and problems than is their usual wont, although this may be only a seasonal thing, what with state legislatures in session as …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 2 No. 2, Alvin H. Proctor, Madeline Mason, Jack W. Vanderhoof, Lewis Turco, Karel Hulicka, R. D. Lakin, David D. Anderson

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THIS is a historic month, and the editors of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY have perforce taken this fact into account in selecting the material appearing in this issue. The presidential elections are behind us, and a new national administration will be inaugurated on the twentieth of this month. On the twenty-ninth, Kansans will observe the centennial of statehood and inaugurate a year of celebrations of all sorts for this important midwest milestone. In a sense, this month of January, 1961, is a meeting point for the Old Frontier of the Kansas past and the New Frontiers …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 2 No. 1, James W. Vander Zanden, Richard C. Welty, Nita Laing, Lewis A. Bayles, James Woodress, Theodore M. Sperry

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in this issue. . .

WITH this number, THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY begins its second year of publication. Everything considered, the editors face the future with confidence. Subscription renewals have been coming in all summer, and even more important, unsolicited manuscripts from all over have been arriving with increasing frequency.

This first issue of Volume II contains articles on a variety of subjects of rather strong current interest. The editors have taken into account several incontestable facts in selecting these discussions for publication. This issue appears a short month before the American presidential election. This month marks the 125th anniversary of …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol 1. No. 4, Judy Bounds Coleman, R. D. Lakin, Preston Slosson, Rebecca Patterson, David G. Barry, Lewis Turco, Charles Burgess

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WITH this number, THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY rounds out Volume I and in effect reaches a kind of maturity. Like the April issue, this fourth number moves our horizons further out by broadening the scope of material published. Once more the editors are able to offer a fairly wide variety of intellectual fare for our discerning readers. While the April issue saw us embark for the first time on the wine-dark sea of verse, this issue carries us further with contributions from two poets who write in the modem mood. And, manuscripts already in hand indicate, …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 1 No. 3, David G. Barry, Jerome Cushman, Stuart Levine, Reed Schmickle, Clay P. Malick, Charles E. Guardia

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THIS NUMBER of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY moves our horizons out beyond any previous measure. While our first two issues have contained solid material on a variety of subjects from a diversity of minds, the basic criticism of them has been that the Social Science area was somewhat overrepresented. Even a casual check of our contents will bear out this charge. Therefore, it is with considerable satisfaction and even relief that the editors offer this issue-with only one contribution from the Social Sciences. The scope of subject matter is broader in this issue than it has …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 1 No. 2, Paul Phelps Hutchison, Fred L. Parrish, John Q. Reed, Morris L. Stevens, Earl Swisher, Hans Beerman

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in this issue. . .

FEW AMERICANS who have not visited Canada, our closest friend and ally to the north, have much appreciation for the fact that Canada is a separate and distinct sovereign nation, broad in expanse, magnificent in her natural endowments, and peopled with far more than red-coated members of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. It was the editor's privilege to visit the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta in the summer of 1957 as director of a field trip whose personnel were basically Kansans, many of them school teachers in the Sunflower State. It was little short …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 1 No. 1, Theodor [Unknown], Hans Beerman, Katharine F. Nutt, Alvin H. Proctor, Clyde C. Walton, Richard C. Welty

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Even before Vice President Richard M. Nixon had announced his mission to Russia, the editors of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY had been fortunate in securing the manuscript of the lead article in this issue. With interest in the U.S. S. R. as high as it currently is, this rather charming autobiographical report of the life and hard times of a Russian peasant seems extremely appropriate for publication. In plain, unvarnished language it gives a painfully detailed picture of the grim problems its author encountered as his country passed from revolution to world war and into the …

Theodore Roosevelt - Preacher Militant His Political Philosophy As Proclaimed In His Speeches, Evelyn Hanshaw

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The age of chivalry with its color and romance is remembered usually as a story-book existence which is pleasant and exciting to read about. Forgotten too often are the ideals and the splendid code of conduct which actuated the heroic deeds. It cannot be said that all knights wore admirable and incorruptible, but out of their period, embodied in its literature, has come to us a way of life. Sir Galahad, St. George, Arthur--whichever one is called to mind-- each want through life fighting relentlessly, sometimes foolishly, but always gloriously against impossible odds as he pursued his ideal. Courageous and …