Excerpt from Syllabus on the Issues of the WarThe course on the issues of the war prescribed by the War Department for members of the Students' Army Training Corps was to be divided into three general topics, (1) the historical and economic problems of the nations involved, (2) their social and governmental conditions, and (3) their philosophies and literatures. Each topic was to be treated during a single term. Very wisely the Committee on Education and Special Training permitted the institutions which maintained units of the Corps some leeway in the evolution of the details of the course. Since the armistice was signed before the close of the first term, only a third of the course was carried out according to the original plans. The officers in charge of the course at the University of Iowa contemplated the publication, for the use of the University and of such other institutions as might desire to employ them, of three sets of syllabi. Only one set was completed, but, while the immediate purpose is no longer to be served, it has seemed advisable to publish this first syllabus as a record of the course and a guide for later study of the great war. The syllabus was compiled by the chairmen of instructional groups and edited by Professor Van der Zee.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.