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...undergraduate publication, the "Harvard Critic," which was announced yesterday, may well come to 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...
...part the new policy of the Advocate, as evidenced by its first issue, already attempts to cover this ground. The Advocate, however, fills other functions which make it unfitted to be a controversial magazine, and if the editors of the Critic make the proper discriminations they need tread no more on the toes of the Mother than on those of the Atlantic Monthly. It is an organ of controversy that the Critic will best fit into Harvard life...
...intelligent and responsible direction which fully realizes the magnitude of the task which it is undertaking, there is, however, a good chance that the magazine will make itself a lasting part of the Harvard scene. The healthiest growths are those which thrive under adverse conditions, and if the Harvard Critic make a permanent place for itself it will be a welcome and valuable addition to the flocks on Harvard's Parnassus, and a credit to those who are sponsoring...
...University publication, in the form of a four page four column paper issued monthly, has recently been planned by a group of students. This paper will be provisionally named "The Harvard Critic" and will sell for five cents a copy on the news-stands...
...possible." So simple, so calm is the "Mother" that it is difficult to realize with what angry cluckings it was hailed on its first exhibition. Only because Sir William Boxall, Whistler's friend, argued himself hoarse in its behalf did it get into the Royal Academy at all. Critic Tom Taylor of the Times (he also doubled for Punch) promptly criticized it as "ignoring all accepted canons of good drawing, good color and good painting." In 1881-82 the picture was shown in Philadelphia and New York. Nobody thought enough of it to bid the $1,000 Jimmy Whistler...