The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-06-23

Americans have ever been proud Of, so
far as our army's achievements were con-
cerned. The navy, of course, has always
been duly credited with the wonderful
work it did, but the land battles were
often without credit to our forces. and
in not a, few>c cases very spiritess affairs.
The author pictures affairs at the capital
OF the nation, and his summary of mill
tary operations in that vicinity says; I'm
Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania,
there were then living not far from /, 500,
600 whites. Yet this great population
remained in its towns and cities and suf-
fered 5000 Englishmen to spend five weeks
in its midst without ever once attempt
ing to drive the invaders from the soil.
After all the most singular thing about
that war was the flimsy basis upon which
the three years contest was carried on.
The specific grounds for declaration of
war were complaints that American sail
ors had been impressed into British seI-
vice. But in tho treaty of peace, which
by the way was concluded months before
the greatest battle of the war was fought,
is silent on the very point of difference
between the two nations. Tho author of
this great work, OF which the Appletons
are the publishers, is doing a splendid
service to the country. 1t is, as we said
at the beginning, the most important re-
cent event in our literature.
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DR.. Henry M. Field. whose books of
travel are so popular, has a new volume
in the press of Charles Scribner's Sons,
called Our Western Archipelago, in which
he records the incidents of a recent trip
through Alaska and down the Pacific
coast, through Oregon, Washington and
the northwestern states.
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The summer school is growing steadily
in ia VOr in this country In 1874 tho
Chautauqua course of lectures and study
began. and the WORK of doing something
to utilize the summer time in educa-
tional ways has now become systematic
aud general. The university of Virginia
was also pioneer in the work of summer
schools, and its school of law was started
as early as 1870. although it remained in
au embryonic state until 1875. One lnsti-
tuition after another has fallen into line,
and summer work is now done at Cornell.
Yale, Columbia, STAFFORD and many OF
the state universities OF the west. The
university extension movement is also
taking possession of the summer field
and such progra mnle as that offered for
the coming season at the nlversity oil
Pennsylvania is really extraordinary in
its scope and interest. 1t remained, how
ever, for the new university of Chicago
first to occupy the position that the
SUNNI er months are just as good as any
O'hSio ioi iuii uIIiNSIoioy WIN III al VIC
partments and first to offer the example
of a great institution of learning open to
stu Tents from one end of the year to the
other. The results of first season, and
the now completed arrangements for a
second. all go to show that President
Harper had reason to attach great i'm
portance to this unprecedented feature
of the university planned by him. Al
a single bound this new educational de-
parture has passed from the experimental
stage to the stage of successfully accom-
pished fact, and summer education has
entered upon the most serious phase thai
it has yet known in this Country.