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...editor of any Harvard publication, and I am not writing this letter to defend any editorial board. But it has appeared to me after three years of assiduous perusal of almost all the publications here, together with their reviews as published in the CRIMSON, that some one ought to caution the undergraduates against the majority of the reviewers. In his honest review of the Advocate, published in the CRIMSON, March 7, Doctor Maynadier has this sentence, pregnant with uncommonly good sense: "Any officer of the College, even 'the young assistant,' must have a point of view so different from that...
Such a statement ought to have been uttered ages ago; for, it will appear, most of the editors of undergraduate publications have been attempting to meet the conditions these reviewers have imposed upon them, and, strange though it may seem to "the young assistant," one cannot grow up in a night--even after a scathing review of his "immature" style. It has grown upon me, as I have looked through the files of the CRIMSON reviews, preparatory to writing this letter, that the only persons to be trusted with a pen in criticising undergraduate literary efforts are professors...
...Musical Review has uniformly escaped with fewer shafts sticking to its ribs than the others--but that is mainly because its reviewers have been too generous to strike an infant. Generally its reviews have been inconsequential because of the tendency of its critics to assume a fatherly attitude, and try to teach it to lisp. If any one desires to know an illustration, he may read H. K. Moderwell's review of a recent number...
Frequently critics have not attempted a review of the issue but have merely tried to disprove the writer's statements. (See Professor Heilman's criticism of Roger Session's article on "Our Attitude to Contemporary Musical Tendencies," in The Musical Review, and Professor R. B. Perry's review of C. M. Rogers's screed on "The Freshman Dormitories, in the January Monthly). But the average young man of twenty-one years cannot be expected to have the same perspective as his professors...
...this seems damning with faint praise, the trouble is not so much with the Advocate as with the reviewer. For such work he, like all his colleagues, is too old. College papers are written by undergraduates to be read by undergraduates. Are not undergraduates the best people to review them? Any officer of the College, even "the young assistant," must have a point of view so different from that of undergraduates that to him the most conspicuous trait of undergraduate publications is likely to be youth. Now we may all, like the middle-aged teller of Mr. Conrad's glorious...