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Editorial 



THE NBW YEAR 



Who among us shall dare to give to our friends this year, the gay 

 and joyous greetings that have fallen so readially from our lips in 

 times past in wishing "A Happy New Year!" And yet there has 

 never been a season in the lifetime of this generation when the 

 heart so deeply and sincerely wished for every- one a happy new 

 year. But now, however fervently the heart may wish it, the head 

 crushes back the expression by the thought. "How can the new 

 year be happy with the whole world at grips in the deadliest and 

 crudest war known to the history of our planet r" 



No, the wishing "A Happy New Year" can be but a hollow 

 expression weighed down as we are by anxiety and the conviction 

 that happiness is not likely to be a general possession anywhere 

 during 1918. 



Therefore, let us change the form of our greeting this year and 

 say, "May the New Year afford you new opportunity to serve 

 humanity ; and may it bring you the desire to serve, the faith that 

 right will triumph and the strength to endure to the end." 



THE NATURALIST IN TRAINING CAMP 



We have always maintained that an intimacy with Nature and 

 an interest in her ways will ever prove a resource for entertainment 

 and give a sense of companionship under whatever circumstances 

 that life may impose. The following extract from a letter from 

 Mr. Chester H. Menke is given as evidence of this. Mr. Menke is 

 known to many readers of The Review as Instructor in Nature- 

 Study at Cornell; he is now at Camp Sherman at Chillicothe, Ohio. 



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