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...fostered to any appreciable extent by overt "recognition", that it can thrive lustily even though accompanied by something less than a fanfare of trumphets. Scholarship--not to put too fine a point upon it--is like virtue, its own reward. This may sound like arrant sentimentality: it is the soberest truth. The real stimulus to the life of study is not, of course, the applause of the market place but one's own unquenchable thirst for knowledge, one's love of ideas for their own sake. Only those who, however humbly, have swung their oars in it, can know...
...would seem from recent events that the Lampoon is in search of new publics to conquer. Not content with having just captured a page in one of the soberest of weekly papers and with occasionally drawing blood from the Crimson, its editors have taken a prominent place in the current number of the Advocate. Mr. Mechem has written a comedy which is good enough to make us forget most of the time the absurdity of the situation. Mr. Moise has called this satire "In Memoriam." The title explains itself as we read how la Comtesse du Porc-Mouton presented...
...editorials deal with the subjects of "The athletic spirit at Harvard" and "Col-Literature." With reference to the latter, the Monthly states that it "aims to represent not simply 'the strongest and soberest undergraduate thought,' but rather the strongest and soberest thought of the University, - to be, in short, a University organ...
Last fall the "Monthly" was started for the purpose of printing the "strongest and soberest undergraduate thought." Its articles are longer than the "Advocate's;" and while not neglecting good stories and verse, it gives more attention to essays and reviews. It is a very natural outcome of our work here. We indeed try to think steadily and gravely, and we need some magazines to publish the longer and soberer articles which are the result of such thought. Such pieces the "Advocate" often cannot print...
...first number of the long expected Harvard Monthly appeared yesterday. With it we feel justified in saying opens a new era in the student literary life of Harvard. Established with the express purpose of affording a medium for "the strongest and soberest undergraduate thought" of the college, it offers to solid literary work an incentive which has ever been wanting in this university. And it is especially fitting that the initial step in this direction should be made by the present senior class, a class which possesses so many men of marked literary ability...