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...this time every member of the Class of 1919 has received a sample copy of the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin. He is, therefore, in a position to judge of its worth for himself, but it is appropriate that every Senior should appreciate its influence and scope...
...article entitled "A New Menace to Education", which is appearing in a current magazine, John Jay Chapman '84, attacks the new plan of several American colleges of abolishing Latin and Greek as entrance requirements. He makes a strong defense of the classics as an essential part of University education, and makes a particularly effective plea for the continuance f Latin...
...Advocate has never announced itself as the purveyor of "the best" literary work done in the University, nor does the current number give it any basis on which to make such a claim. Possibly its editors believe that what we need most is not a monthly selection of the most perfect undergraduate work; possibly they are more anxious to publish material reflecting the type of writing most undergraduates like to do and expressing the thoughts they like to think, and, very possibly, they believe this is the nearest possible approach to what seems to be the unattainable ideal...
...this is the theory on which they proceed, the current number of the Advocate is a success. The material ranges in subject from ghosts to British Guiana, and from prohibition to joy rides. Nearly everywhere there is clear thought and clear expression--occasionally there is distinction, and only rarely, real mediocrity. A reading of the whole number conveys very much the impression given by an afternoon spent in "good talk"--if such an afternoon were possible--with a group of active and well-informed undergraduates of no type and confined to no one set of ideas. Perhaps here...
...current issue of Vanity Fair contains an article by John Jay Chapman entitled "Harvard's Plight," a renewed complaint against the composition of the Corporation. Although we were surprised to find such a weighty subject discussed in a publication which seldom enters upon academic questions, the matter is too important to be dismissed without thought or comment. Mr. Chapman declares that Harvard is run by State Street bankers and that they have caused a spirit of "commercialism" to pervade its former intellectual atmosphere...