from the students and recent graduates of our high schools. These schools have been much criticized, perhaps with some reason, for failing to fit for business or for industrial life; but they have now justified themselves gloriously. Even more than any admirer had claimed, they have proved that they have given to American youth a true sense of world values, a fine, robust idealism, and a nobly quiet readiness to live or die for those ideals, to do their bit for world-righteousness. To the youth so trained in those schools, and now embattled in the mighty conflict "to save democracy," I humbly dedicate this book. WINDAGO FARM, WILLIS MASON WEST. January, 1918. The present reprint of this book contains changes and additions bringing it down to date. June, 1920. W. M. W. X. |