Word: reviewal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...were used as army quarters in the Revolutionary War; Memorial Hall and Soldiers Field are monuments to the Harvard men who fell in 1861-65. Yet we of the present generation, while we deeply sympathize, can hardly appreciate the conditions in European universities today. The following extract from the Review, of Cambridge, England, shows a situation and a spirit which are only too common in institutions of learning throughout all Europe...
...first number of the Review for this academic year is in itself unique. The journal of University life and thought has become on this occasion a record of the death and self-devotion of Cambridge men. It is a record of which any University might be proud. At present it is estimated that ten thousand, two hundred and fifty Cambridge men have come forward to serve their country. Already nearly one in seven is numbered among the killed, the wounded, or the prisoners. The most brilliant gifts intellectual, administrative and physical, have been offered freely and without complaint upon...
...Boyden's review of Hugh Walpole and Compton Mackenzie is admirable, not because it is the last word on these writers, but because it is a young man's unpretentious appreciation of the treatment of youth by two other young men. It avoids with uncommon tact that straining for an appearance of maturity and omniscience which is the vice of undergraduate criticism
...work of Harvard men in the Law School, as compared with that of graduates of other institutions, has often been taken as a barometric measure of the quality of Harvard students and instruction. Two years ago the College had less than its proportion of graduates on the Law Review; and, for example, the inference was drawn by some members of the classics department that the relatively poor showing was due to the lack of interest, and consequently of training in the classics...
...cent. of the third-year class were Harvard men, 31 per cent. of those receiving a grade of A were graduates of the College; and while only 28 per cent. of the two lower classes were Harvard men, one-third of the thirty elected to the Law Review were graduates of Harvard. Two years ago the Sears prizes, given to the four men of highest standing in the second and third-year classes,--two to each class,--were won by graduates of other institutions. This year Harvard men won three of the four prizes...