Word: authorized
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...already numerous body of "Harvard" stories has lately received an addition in "The Cult of the Purple Rose: a Phase of Harvard Life," by Shirley Everton Johnson '95. By the device of an imagined undergraduate society of pseudo-literary tastes the author is enabled to introduce several verses and tales, the relation of which to college surroundings is slight, and which are possessed of no striking merit. Of his own book he says in his preface: "No Harvard man will take this book seriously. It deals solely with the doings of a few extremists." The reader is likely to agree...
...problems and history of the South by William Garrott Brown, has been published recently by the Macmillan Co. The volume consists of six interesting papers, from the first and most important of which the book is named. The substance of the first three papers has been given by the author in the form of public lectures at Harvard; the last three appeared in the Atlantic Monthly...
...economy at All Soul's College, Oxford, will deliver a course of lectures before the Economics Department in October on some disputed points in economics and statistics. Professor Edgeworth is editor of the Economic Journal which is the official organ of the British Economic Association. He is also the author of a number of works which support especially the mathematical side of the economic theory...
...Will you kindly allow me the opportunity of calling attention to a less advertised work upon the same subject by a distinguished Englishman, who is not only a literary man, but also a scholar. I refer to Mr. John A. Hobson, lecturer in the London School of Economics, and author of several well-known books upon economic theory and history, which are regularly used in our economic courses. Mr. Hobson's "The War in South Africa: its Causes and Effects," was written after a sojourn of several months in South Africa, and, in the opinion of many, represents the most...
Interesting testimony concerning the elective system and its influences is contained in an article, contributed by Professor Hanus to the March number of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine, in which the author has briefly summarized the results of the recent investigation by the Seminary in Education. The conclusions reached are based upon the answers of graduates of recent years to a series of questions sent out by the Seminary in the fall of 1900. The number of question blanks sent out was 4728. Replies were received from 987 persons, or 21 per cent. Of these, 712, or over 72 per cent...