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Reading the April number carefully for review has confirmed the impression of excellence which I receive frequently from glancing more casually an the Harvard Monthly. In more writing if equals most of the high-class periodicals of older men. In substance, in things to say, it comes nearer to them than would naturally be expected. Indeed there are several contributions to this number which surmised to be from graduates and was decidedly surprised to find from men still in College. The sketch of a man's experience under other which impressed me most of anything in the number...
...Rogers '07, of Sussex, New Brunswick, has been appointed a Rhodes scholar to Oxford University from that province by Mount Allison University. He was graduated in 1904 from there with high honors, and after teaching at the Acacia Villa School in Grand Pre for a year, he entered College last fall as a Senior and has been specializing in the classics...
...population of New York, he said, is increasing so rapidly, and the value of property is accordingly becoming so high, that the poor are obliged to pay about one-third of their yearly incomes in rent. Usually, in the more crowded sections, there is about one family to a room, no matter whether the family is of three or ten members. This congestion of population has led to a death-rate four times as high as when families lived in flats of four or five rooms each...
April 26--Somerville High at Cambridge...
Edward Rieman Lewis '08, of Indianapolis, Indiana, the first speaker on the University team, prepared for College at the Shortridge High School of that city. He has been actively connected with debating since his Freshman year, when he was a member of both the class team against the Sophomores and against Exeter. In his Sophomore year he spoke on his class team that defeated the Freshmen: and this fall he was a member of the second team in the debate with Yale. In the trials for the present team, the Coolidge Prize was awarded to him. He is a member...