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PERSONAL POWER
By William Jewett Tucker
Crown 8vo, $1.50 net. Postage extra.
As president of Dartmouth during the period when it was growing from a small New England college to one of the largest institutions of its kind in the United States, Dr. Tucker came to feel very keenly the need of quickening in young men the sense of personal power. This may be accomplished through various agencies, notably through the competition of business; but no business exists for this purpose. By common consent, however, the college stands for just this influence. From time to time, therefore, Dr. Tucker gave the Dartmouth students addresses, or less formal talks, on themes like the Estimation of Power, the Distribution of Personal Power, the Morally Well-bred Man, Moral Maturity, and the Recovery of Personal Power. Several of the most suggestive and stimulating of these talks are now gathered for publication. The volume contains also a group of four addresses made at the opening of successive college years, on the general subject of the Moral Training of the College Man, taking up successively the training of the Gentleman, the Scholar, the Citizen, and the Altruist.
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WILLIAM J. TUCKER
The immense popularity of ex-President Tucker at Dartmouth will of course commend this book to all men who have been connected with that college during the last sixteen years, but the interest will not stop there. He is almost equally well and favorably known to the public at large, as a wise educator and an eloquent preacher, for he has been heard in many prominent pulpits and was for several years a professor in Andover Theological Seminary.
THE HEALTH OF THE CITY
By Hollis Godfrey
12mo.
Few contemporary topics are so pressing, or attracting so much attention, as city sanitation to help the health of cities. Mr. Godfrey, well known for his work in popular science, has been making a study of these questions for many years, and by his papers in the Atlantic Monthly and elsewhere, has come to be an authority in the field. This book brings together the results of his studies, in a volume that will be of interest to every intelligent citizen, and of the highest usefulness to all engaged in welfare work. The topics treated are: city air, water, milk, food, ice, noise, waste, plumbing, and housing. Mr. Godfrey's writings are entertaining as well as instructive, and the book is the best handbook of this important subject obtainable—(Ready in April.)