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DEAR SIRS.- At a time of the year when other subjects about college do not attract general interest, perhaps you will find room in your columns for some remarks about the state of rowing at Harvard...
With the January issue the Monthly assumes its familiar appearance, and presents attractive and varied articles. The graduate contribution, by Mr. H. P. Bowditch, is a thorough discussion of the question, "Is Harvard a University? The writer inquires "can Harvard at present be properly termed a university? If not, are changes of organization or method, which would justify the use of the term, desirable? It so, what are the character and extent of these changes?" In answering these questions he shows that Harvard does not correspond to the types of English, French or German universities, but he does not seem...
...intimated that scholarships have been conferred by the Harvard Faculty in order to attract athletic men. In answer to this charge it is only necessary to state, if indeed any statement is necessary, that all scholarships in Harvard University are conferred by special votes of a Faculty or of the Academic Council, and confirmed by the Corporation; and that in both bodies the only grounds of bestowal are good scholarship and need. It should perhaps be added, in specific answer to the allegation that "a number of the Harvard Eleven are at present beneficiaries of the college funds," that only...
...These contests and their results attract a class of fellows to college that have no proper place there. The consequences are that a bad tone, morally and intellectually, is given to the college, interest in scholarly pursuits is decreased, degrees are given to many without the slightest real claim. Instead of an atmosphere of scholarship, the tendency is towards an atmosphere of professional training. The professors find little responsiveness in their class rooms, become disgusted, and do not give out the best that is in them...
Professor George P. Fisher of Yale university is to write a series on "The Nature and Method of Revelation," which will attract every Bible student. Bishop Potter of New York will be one of several prominent writers who are to contribute a series of "Present-day Papers" on living topics, and there will be art papers, timely articles, etc., etc., and the choicest pictures that the greatest artists and engravers can produce...