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...London Studio has just published the first two handbooks in a series on the graphic arts.* Intended as manuals of instruction for art students the books contain little that any first-year student in an art school would not know, are of great value in showing the general public how prints are made, what to look for in the finished proof. Most interesting are the tipped-in photographs showing Etcher West and Woodcutter Leighton at work, pictures of all the etchers' and woodcutters' tools...
Announcement has been made at the Business School that the special, unemployment session will probably not contain more than 50 or 60 men. Although the number is not large, it is not too small to make the session worth while. At the present late date approximately 25 men from all over the United States have registered and many hundreds of inquiries have been received...
President Lowell's annual reports to the Board of Overseers deserve to be far more widely known than they are. They are no mere perfunctory routine documents. They contain many pages of vigorous and stimulating comment on the House Plan, the reading periods, the tutorial system, and graduate study. A collection of the best passages from these reports would constitute a distinguished treatise on educational principles. Such a collection would be a fitting monument to President Lowell's outstanding leadership in university education and would at the same time be in itself a thing of permanent value...
Autobiographies almost invariably contain an apology; some have little else. In Earth Horizon Mary Austin's apology, never explicit, is to be found in her generally defiant tone. "I don't see why it should be so much the literary mode just now to pretend that ideas are not intrinsically exciting and that one's own life isn't interesting to one's self." Hiding her personal pronoun behind her name, she writes of herself sometimes as 'T." some-times as ''Mary." The rising generation may find little to attract them...
...fill a blank in the College's literary roster. The "Critic" will serve mainly as a month piece for opinions concerning Harvard policy and educational trends, as well as national affairs, a function which no existing local publication taken as the sole basis of its endeavors. The periodical will contain articles by men beyond the narrow pale of Harvard life, a field until recently untrod by undergraduate editors. The aim of the Critic's board will be to express all shades of opinion, and will shun a literary, highly intellectual flavor. The monthly evidently purposes to be in the thick...