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...would be worth the while of all Harvard men to read a character sketch of President Eliot, by George P. Morris, which appears in the March number of the Review of Reviews. The author reviews, with what is evidently sympathetic and admiring appreciation, the position of President Eliot among American educators. his character as a man, his early career, his work as president of Harvard, and finally, his opinions and expressions on some present educational, social and religious problems. One who reads this article will gain new understanding of the far-reaching and enduring service to Harvard and the general...
...editorial is worth reading--and believing. In "College Kodaks" the Advocate editors have set themselves the hard task of commenting, lightly and yet with no obvious attempt at joking, upon the little happenings and phases of college life. For the excellence of the aim, one may easily pardon the treatment which has as yet been only partly satisfactory...
...February number of the Monthly contains unusually little of interest or merit. "Academic Truth," the reprint of a speech delivered in Sanders Theatre by Francis Cabot Lowell, and an essay on "Stephen Phillips and His Work," by O. J. Campbell, are the only articles worth careful reading. "A Winter Ode," by H. W. Holmes, has no little beauty of description. But the Monthly has seldom--if ever--given twenty pages of space to a weaker effort than "The Tower of Silence; a Play," or published a poem more out-of-place than the doggerel verses, "On a Certain Retaining Wall...
...Warner '69, is the most profitable article in the January Monthly. It treats of the old, yet never quite trite subject of an undergraduate's responsibility to himself and his own future, and the importance of definite scholastic purpose during the four college years. The final sentences are worth quoting: "Remember that a college course is not an education: it is the opportunity for one, and is what you make it. It can deliver a man at the end, blankly unaware of the high things among which he has been moving, a vacant idler, or a stupid book...
...this matter is to be considered at all, I trust it may be on the merits of the question itself, as to whether the change suggested is worth while on its own account, and not as to how it may affect the outcome of future races. For my part I believe that, barring accidents, the best crew will win in either case, and that the best crew for three miles is also the best crew for four miles, even though, at first glance, the experience of the past two years may seem to indicate otherwise. EDWARD C. STORROW...