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Undergraduate publications are apt to lose sight of the fact that the University, as well as the editors, is held responsible, and is judged and criticized for any intemperate utterance. If the editors were publishing the "Monthly" purely as a personal venture, and if the "Monthly" did not purport to be a magazine, representative of the literary ability and taste of the University, the editors might feel at liberty to publish anything within the postal regulations. But the "Monthly" calls itself the "Harvard Monthly," and is circulated as a Harvard undergraduate magazine. Its responsibility to the University is clear...
...committee has recently been named for the formation of a national association of university professors, an organization that aims to strengthen the conception of the professors' status. Its purpose is indicated by a circular letter lately sent out by the Johns Hopkins professors. The purport of this letter was that the university professor, besides his interest in his specialty, is "concerned, as a member of the legislative body of his own local institution, with questions of educational policy which are of more than local significance" and "that he is a member of a professional body which is the special custodian...
...Charles Wellington Furlong, F.R.G.S., writer and explorer, will give an illustrated lecture in the Union, Tuesday evening, on "Tripoli, the Gateway to the Sahara." The real purport of the lecture will be to present to the audience a clear idea of the existing situation in Tripoli in regard to the Turkish-Italian war, with its causes and effects. In addition to this fundamental topic, however, Mr. Furlong will give an insight into the most typical of the Barbary capitals, the focus of the great Sahara caravan routes, with pictures illustrating the primitive tribes who inhabit the oases and tablelands...
...most of us, the best side of college athletics is one which Paul Withington recently described with ringing pride at a Harvard alumni dinner. I cannot quote his figures, but their purport was that on any fine afternoon Soldiers Field and the river can show a greater number engaged in outdoor sport than would have been dreamed of ten years ago. According to this view the most welcome item in that $127,000 budget is the $10,600 spent for "permanent improvements," and the most significant thing about Mr. Gill's article is that if, as he believes, there really...
...breath, all to short, of down-east air, tingling with the strong, salt flavor of sea-girt downs and long, pebbly beaches; a tantalizing glimpse of gray ocean and pine-clad islands. The story, as a mere story, amounts to little, but why should it? The book does not purport to be more than a few stray chapters from the lives of a few people, isolated almost absolutely as are the inhabitants of Eastern Maine. Their interests are circumscribed by the hills on one side and the ocean on the other. Yet it seems but natural that the stranger...