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With the October issue of the "Harvard Musical Review" appears another magazine to claim its share of undergraduate interest. To the average observer it would seem that the number of students sufficiently interested in music to subscribe to such a paper would be much too small to insure it life and financial health, or at least in comparison to its older brothers the "Monthly" and the "Illustrated." And, no doubt, the very fact that enough enthusiasm was generated among the students to produce even the initial number of a paper which contains only material of a purely musical nature will...
Like all first numbers, the October "Review" lacks that unity which may be expected when the editors have enjoyed longer co-operation and have gained that experience which no less in journalism than in other pursuits is an efficient teacher...
...number contains several cuts, among them one of Dr. Karl Muck and one of Mr. Foote; also a well-written review of the life and works of Massenet, by T. M. Spelman '13, and an account of the plans of the Harvard Opera Association, by N. Roosevelt '14. Edward Royce '07 has contributed a graceful piece for piano-forte, and there is editorial comment and other reading. The composition of the magazine both as regards type and paper is excellent...
Music is a daily increasing factor in Harvard life. In the Musical Review we behold the latest and most potent evidence of its hold on the undergraduate. That the editors should have felt themselves called to the work of issuing a new paper in the face of discouraging odds, and that they persevered and succeeded does them high credit. If the first number is a criterion, the Harvard Musical Review has already taken its place among the undergraduate publications...
...itself to be deplored; but it goes only a very little way toward accounting for a fall of from 42 per cent. to 23 per cent. in the proportion of LL.B.'s cum laude taken by Harvard men, and a fall in Harvard's representation on the Law Review of from 46 per cent. to the 4 per cent. to which it is now reduced. There appears to be no escape from the conclusion that the recent Review elections indicate a real deterioration in the quality of work done by Harvard graduates in the Law School. Such a deterioration presents...