Word: likings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Three articles in the April number of The Harvard Illustrated Magazine, Mr. Clapp's, Mr. McKenna's, and Mr. Groton's, are likely to secure the attention not only of Harvard graduates and undergraduates but of other readers. Lovers of "the national game" will doubtless turn first to Mr. McKenna's "Baseball Outlook for 1907", a compact and concise statement of the conditions at Yale and Princeton, and a sanguine analysis of those at Harvard. If Mr. McKenna is right,--and that he is, is devoutly to be wished,--Harvard men may conclude their reading with a sigh of satisfaction...
...defeat by Japan opened the eyes of the Russian aristocracy and led them to consider the introduction of foreign governmental institutions, like those of England and France. The first Douma was the greatest concession of the government, but it was too great an opening for the peasants. The peasants had been restrained all their lives by the government, and upon receiving the opportunity of freedom, as it may be called, they carried its privileges to a great excess. Now it is the endeavor of the government to get the peasant back to his original state...
...Religion of Spring," by Van Wyck Brooks, is a haze of vague expression and puffs of thought. It impresses one like that admirable Turner picture, "Steam and Fog." The longest of three short poems is one by J. H. Wheelock, "The Close of Mass." This has the quality of good poetry, in that it will bear re-reading and inspires thought...
...Geological section. This type of instrument records earth vibrations on smoked paper carried on revolving drums operated by clockwork. One of the same general type which has been set up in the State Museum at Albany, New York, for more than a year, on a clay foundation like that underlying the Harvard station, gave complete records of the San Francisco, Valparaiso, and the great Indian earthquakes. The Harvard station will pay particular attention to New England earthquakes and to the geological examination of the recent fault-lines along which it is suspected many historically recorded small shocks have arisen...
...more strictly Harvard part of the number, the chief article is that of M. S. McN. Watts on "The Athletic Situation." This is one more protest against the assumed hostility to intercollegiate games of the special investigating committee. Its argument, like that of most students writing on this topic, is vitiated by assuming that wholesome competition stands or falls with the intercollegiate system. The excessive emphasis here given to the importance of intercollegiate sport in maintaining the influence and reputation of the University seems to the reviewer only another proof of the charge that athletics are viewed by many students...