BOOK REVIEWS
Guarding the Frontier: A Study of
Frontier Defense from 1815
to 1825. By Edgar Bruce Wesley. (Minneapolis, Minnesota,
University of Minnesota Press, 1935.
217p. $2.50.)
The author who is head of the history
department of the
University High School and associate
professor of education in
the University of Minnesota gives in
this volume a study of the
frontier defenses from 1815 to 1825. He
treats particularly of
the defensive military measures adopted
against various Indian
tribes, but he also deals with the
defenses established against the
British and the Spaniards during the
period covered. The political,
military and economic factors which
served as a background for
the establishment of that policy are all
considered.
The volume contains twelve chapters to
which are added
four appendixes, two of which give a
list of Indian agents and
sub-agents and a list of factors with
their locations. A bibliog-
raphy and index complete the volume. The
practical value of
the book is increased by the inclusion
of maps showing: Approx-
imate location of the Indian tribes that
affected frontier policy,
1815-1825; Indian factories in the
United States, 1795-1822; units
of military administration in the
United States, 1815-1821; and
military posts in the United States,
1815-1825.
H. L.
The University in the Great War. By Wilbur H. Siebert. His-
tory of the Ohio State University, IV. (Columbus, Ohio,
Ohio State University Press, 1934.
320p.)
Professor Wilbur H. Siebert has added an
interesting volume
to the larger work and has incorporated
much valuable data for
students of the war period in its many
aspects. The story em-
braces an account of the activities of
individuals and organiza-
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tions in the university during the war
period. The records of the
Board of Trustees, those of the Alumni
Association, and the
several military and social
organizations were the sources of the
study.
There is a separate chapter, dealing
with the contribution of
personnel of each college, in the
instruction of students in army
tactics, or in the service, whether it
was on a government board
or in service over-seas. In a chapter on
the "College of Liberal
Arts," Siebert has included a table
which throws interesting light
upon the effect of the war on enrollment
in the various depart-
ments of instruction. Interest in
history and the Romance lan-
guages increased while the number of
students enrolled in Ger-
man, English, Greek and geology dropped.
The number of stu-
dents taking German fell from 2291, in 1914, to 187
students in
1919, while the enrollment in Romance
languages increased, dur-
ing the same period, from 1560 to 3086.
Professor Siebert has acknowledged the
assistance of Pro-
fessors Edgar H. McNeal and Osman C.
Hooper for parts of
certain chapters. Dr. Carl Wittke wrote
the chapter on "Cam-
pus Publications during the War,"
for which he read the cam-
pus publications such as the Lantern,
the Sun Dial, Makio, the
Agricultural Student and others. From this mirror "is reflected
most of the important events and
interests in university life."
Wittke found that an effort was made to
develop an intelligent
patriotism and a thorough understanding
of the issues of the
war. An evidence of this was the
frequently featured interviews,
with faculty members, dealing with
problems and developments
of the war, which appeared regularly in
the Lantern.
Professor Siebert has made a
contribution of value, not only
of interest to the alumni of the
university, in bringing back
recollections of the campus of twenty
years ago, but he has made
a distinct contribution to the history
of the period. There are
thirty-five illustrations which add to
the value of the book and
there is an adequate index to facilitate
reference. W. D. O.