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...December number of the Graduates' Magazine is graced with a garland of appreciation contributed by eminent writers in honor of Professor Norton's eightieth birthday. A sonnet by Edith Wharton heads the list, and there follow letters from Ambassador Bryce, President Eliot, Horace Howard Furness, R. W. Gilder, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, W. D. Howells, G. H. Palmer, Bliss Perry, Goldwin Smith, and Andrew D. White. President Eliot traces the development of Mr. Norton's courses at Harvard-a most interesting history to follow, especially for those of us to whom Fine Arts 3 and Fine Arts 4 seemed as ancient...
Even without the distinction of these tributes to Professor Norton, the present number of the Graduates' Magazine would be of special interest. Besides the reports of college affairs, news from the classes, and book reviews, one may find here topics ranging from the Law School Library and the efficient services of the Appointments Bureau to the ten thousand guinea pigs which are quartered in Lawrence Hall and have all unwittingly contributed much to science and the fame of Harvard. A valuable article on Charles Chauncey makes clear that aristocracy as well as democracy presided over the inception of the University...
...most striking article in the number is a spirited rejoinder by the editor to the danger of Germanization and general depravity brought against Harvard College by one of its more recent graduates. Harvard cannot thrive without criticism, but this particular attack is unfortunate in more ways than one. The editor finds Oxfordization as perilous a development both for the College and for the critic in question-and disapproves any scheme which would tend to destroy either college spirit or class spirit. This is true: despite the amazing changes wrought by the reform of the curriculum, Harvard College is embedded...
...contents of the first number will be as follows: "The Call to Theology," by Professor Francis G. Peabody '69; "Modern Ideas of God," by Arthur C. McGiffert; "Is Our Protestantism Still Protestant," by William A. Brown '63; "A Turning Point in Synoptic Criticism," by Benjamin W. Bacon; "Recent Excavations in Palestine," by Professor David G. Lyon; and "The Economic Basis of the Problem of Evil," by Thomas N. Carver...
...annual volume, containing about 500 pages, will be the unit of publication. No articles will be continued from one number to another, even though it should be necessary to devote a whole issue to a single important contribution...