Edith Abbott of Hull House, and founder of the Chicago School of Social Work, noted in 1918 that the "efforts of the professional woman to realize a new ideal of pecuniary independence constituted a social revolution."

Felix Adler, founder of the Ethical Culture Movement, advocated progressive education, free kindergartens, and vocational training schools in 1910.

Professor Frank Aydelotte of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology organized a course on the historic background of the war and the social philosophy of the belligerent nations; called the War Aims Course, it was soon offered at all colleges in the United States training conscripted men.

Charles Caldwell, of the Chicago Tuberculosis Sanitarium, announced in 1917 that approximately 30 percent of Chicago's schoolchildren were anemic, underfed, and possibly affected by tuberculosis.

Dr. P. P. Claxton, of the U.S. Bureau of Education, wrote a foreword in a 1915 pamphlet issued to all...