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...motive of the work. Hervieu, in his "Flirt," in "Peints par euxmemes," "L' Armature," "Les Tenailles," and "La Loi de Phmme," has taken his stand as the defender and the champion of the rights of modern woman. He has voluntarily circumscribed the field of his observations to society, the sphere in which woman finds opportunity to show her grace and charm, and to exercise her supremacy. Society life is the life in which he lives in thought, and it is the subject with which he prefers to deal. To him there is something fascinating in the luxe of modern civilization...
...subject matter in the January number of the Illustrated Magazine is more within its proper sphere than has formerly been the case. The description, with illustrations, of "The South American Station of the Harvard College Observatory," is a very interesting article and suggests the field of work that the Illustrated can most successfully fill as one of the College magazines. The issue contains one poem that might well have been left in the hands of one of the other two periodicals that deal with such. Other articles are "Holworthy Hall," "Harvard Life One Hundred Years Ago," "A Morning...
...pages, he added to the reputation of the University as a nursery of accurate scholarship and sound thinking. Indirectly through his pupils, and directly through his writings, he did much to educate public opinion; and he would have done more, had not his desire to enlarge his sphere of influence--for he was not without ambition--been held in check by the abiding belief that his paramount duty was to the institution into whose service he had entered...
...returned to the quiet of a life of teaching. As one of those who had a share in forming the present policy of the University, it is, however, that he stands in closest relation to the Harvard undergraduates, and Professor Taussig's appreciation of what he accomplished in this sphere is an eloquent appeal for our esteem and admiration for one who has done to merit it more than we appreciate...
...second useful sphere of the committee's activity is the collecting of old clothes among the students in December and April, and dispensing them among the needy all over the country. The quarters of the committee are in Brooks House. Its officers are: Chairman, Professor J. H. Ropes; secretary, D. F. Drake '00; treasurer, E. C. Stern '01; director, Robert A. Woods...