WEEKLY OUTLINE CURRENT HISTORY BY J. MADISON GATHANY, A.M. HOPE STREET HIGH SCHOOL, PROVIDENCE, R. I. Based on The Outlook of September 18, 1918 Each week an Outline Study of Current History based on the preceding number of The Outlook will be printed for the benefit of current events classes, debating clubs, teachers of history and of English, and the like, and for use in the home and by such individual readers as may desire suggestions in the serious study of current history.-THE EDITORS. [Those who are using the weekly outline should not attempt to cover the whole of an outline in any one lesson or study. Assign for one lesson selected questions, one or two propositions for discussion, and only such words as are found in the material assigned. Or distribute selected questions among different members of the class or group and have them report their findings to all when assembled. Then have all discuss the questions together.] I-INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS A. Topic: Bolshevism and Applied Anti- Reference: Pages 92, 93. 1. Who are the Bolsheviki? State and discuss some of their beliefs. 2. Mr. Roosevelt believes America has its Bolsheviki. Who are they? What would he have done to them? By what authority and in what manner would Mr. Roosevelt deal with these Bolsheviki? Tell why, in your opinion, he is or is not too severe. 3. Explain clearly the meaning of profiteers, exploiting capitalists, and "direct action men. Give illustrations. 4. Mr. Roosevelt advo- B. Topic: The Lesson of Lafayette Day. 1. When and where was Lafayette born? What were the conditions in France and in America at the time he offered his services to our country? 2. Tell, with reasons, what you think of "Lafayette is as unforgettable as Washington in American history and affection." If this statement is true, what is its significance? 3. Has America been saved twice by French valor? Explain your answer. 4. What is II-NATIONAL AFFAIRS Topic: The Student-Soldier. 1. What is the Students' Army Train- III-PROPOSITIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. The loyal American is the best inter- IV-VOCABULARY BUILDING (All of the following words and expressions are found in The Outlook for September 18, 1918. Both before and after looking them up in the dictionary or elsewhere, give their meaning in your own words. The figures in parentheses refer to pages on which the words may be found.) Bolshevism, fanatics, the I. W. W., capitalism (92); Cardinal, immoral nations, treaties (85); college, inducted, education, chemistry, topography, instruction, non-commissioned officer, academic, effect, factor (82). A booklet suggesting methods of using the Weekly Outline of Current History will be sent on application Glasses Do Not Cure Glasses do not remove the cause of eye troubles. Instead, the eyes come to depend on them more every day. Glasses are eye crutches! They simply bolster up the eyes-they do not strengthen them. 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In the course of a campaign against sedi tious and disloyal publications, undertaken WHILE The Tribune was engaged in this work the newsdealers of Greater New York In view of its fight against the Hearst THEREUPON the Publishers' Association, representing (besides the Hearst newspapers) IT T notified the American News Company not to deliver The Tribune to anti-Hearst newsdealers. The American News Company AT this point The Tribune was expected to choose between sacrificing its anti-Hearst THE TRIBUNE then proceeded to or- MEANWHI EANWHILE Hearst has invoked the THE Tribune has retained Lindley M. NOTE-Owing to the scarcity of print paper and the rules of conservation now being observed, it is New York Tribune THE NEW BOOKS This Department will include descriptive notes, with or without brief comments, about books received by The Outlook. Many of the important books will have more extended and critical treatment later FICTION Daughter of the Land (A). By Gene StrattonPorter. Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City. $1.40. Mrs. Stratton-Porter's new book is rightly described as 66 a story of American grit." Kate Bates fights her way against a father who thinks that a younger daughter's duty is to scrub and drudge so that the boys may have land and opportunities. Kate defies him, runs away, becomes a teacher, and emphatically paddles her own canoe. For a long time she develops the fighting power at the expense of feeling, but in the end she gets a broader view of life and helpfulness. There is more reality and terse writing. and less exuberant sentiment in this story than in some of the writer's earlier books. Our Admirable Betty. By Jeffery Farnol. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. $1.60. A joyous romance of England in the eighteenth century, with villains, duels, highwaymen, fashionable gallants, the devotion of an honest but unfashionable soldier to the charming and wilful Betty, and a course of true love which runs far from smoothly but ends happily. 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