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This issue of the "Harvard Monthly" springs so directly from the flames of earlier days that it might well be called the Phoenix Number. It is made up entirely of reprinted writings by former editors and contributors from George Santayana to Ernest A. Simpson. When another former editor, of so antique a date as the third year of the "Monthly's" infancy (1887-88), turns its pages he must resist the temptation to drop into an "in my day" mood--and so he does...
...Crimson concludes: "It is too bad that the magazine that was once so ably directed by such men as Santayana and George Baker should have been so careless." It is too bad that a newspaper once directed by Franklin Roosevelt should have been not only careless but defamatory in its treatment of our editorial. W. S. Gifford, Jr., A. S. Geismer, A. S. Trueblood Officers of the Harvard Monthly
...Monthly wishes to make itself better known as an undergraduate magazine, it should abstain from falsifications, and stick to the facts, as it will gain much more from being accurate. It is too bad that the magazine that was once so ably directed by such men as Santayana and George Baker should have been so careless...
...Santayana is a very agreeable man, with good manners. . . . He makes the impression on me of not knowing more about life than a kid-glove exposed for sale in a shop window...
...privately schooled, taken regularly to Europe, sent to Harvard. There in a class (1910) that included John Reed, Heywood Broun, Kenneth MacGowan, Robert Edmond Jones, Lippmann worked so hard and well that he finished his course in three years, spent his fourth year as assistant to Philosopher George Santayana. William James thought him a bright boy. But it was a British social philosopher visiting at Harvard, Graham Wallas (author of The Great Society which in title at least was the obvious forerunner of Pundit Lippmann's latest book) who really fired Lippmann's imagination, gave his sprouting career...