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These considerations are certainly urged with considerable force by the alumni of the West and South. Under certain conditions we conceive that they would be sufficient to carry the day. It would be as necessary that an Overseer from either of those sections should attend the meetings of the Board regularly in order to secure to the section he represents the advantages which it claims to seek as to give to the University the service which it deems essential from an Overseer. If a man can be found in the West who can and will take the time to attend...
...that one number of the Harvard Monthly is much better than another is to give it high praise, for all of the numbers are good. But certain it is that the current issue of the Monthly is an unusually excellent one, the wide variety of subjects in its table of contents being a specially noteworthy feature...
...Apologist" is the most ambitious piece of prose in the number. Taking for his text some thoughts of Bourget, Mr. Hapgood indulges at some length in an analytical discussion of certain phases of realism of the century, of a certain literary unrest which produces heroes like that one of M. Bourget's who "rots in science, dimly feels his rottoness, defends it in syllogisms, and turns its foul breath on the purest flower in sight." For all this, Mr. Hapgood has a moral and comes to the conclusion that "our discontent with the conditions of our life...
...Communication" on Mr. Garrison's Letter to the Boston Herald, two editorials on the present stand of the faculty on the three year's scheme and on certain defects of the English Department, "The Month," and four book reviews, (among which, the reader will find Mr. Santayana's criticism of "In Cairo" by William Morton Fullerton especially valuable) complete the number...
...addition to the above mentioned courses, certain lectures on methods of instruction will be given by teachers in the several departments represented by the schools. These lectures will be open, without charge, to the persons who are enrolled as members of any of the summer schools in the University...