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...most striking article in the number is a spirited rejoinder by the editor to the danger of Germanization and general depravity brought against Harvard College by one of its more recent graduates. Harvard cannot thrive without criticism, but this particular attack is unfortunate in more ways than one. The editor finds Oxfordization as perilous a development both for the College and for the critic in question-and disapproves any scheme which would tend to destroy either college spirit or class spirit. This is true: despite the amazing changes wrought by the reform of the curriculum, Harvard College is embedded...
...form our judgment of an undergraduate's attitude from the fact that he takes some one easy course. A fair critic will reserve his decision until he has looked into the rest, of the man's schedule and also into the reasons which may have induced him to choose the questionable course...
...Floyd, professor of Botany at Carnegie Desert Botanical Laboratory; Tuscon, Arizona; J. L. Love '90, assistant professor of Mathematics; W. E. McElfresh '95, professor of Physics at Williams College; G. R. Mansfield '04, instructor in Geology; E. R. Markham, assistant in Shop-work; D. G. Mason '95 Musical Critic; A. H. Morse '01, instructor in Mechanical Engineering; H. W. Morse, instructor in Physics; M. Mower instructor in Fine Arts; W. B. Munro '99, assistant professor of Government; H. Munsterberg, professor of Psychology; G. Newhall '98, formerly of the Historical Department; W. F. Osgood '86, professor of Mathematics; E. K. Rand...
...come to anticipate in tales of horror; while L. Grandgent's "The Everlasting Hills," after a highly conventional Class-Day opening, develops in a more original fashion; and only needed more space and a somewhat subtler analysis to be a psychological study of more than average interest. The critic of Alfred Noyes displays most of the vices of immature criticism: a lack of discernible method, a tendency merely to make phrases out of the well-worn vocabulary of current criticism, and a need to consider more curiously what, if anything, his words mean. Take these sentences: "An auster jealousy best...
...articles all have more to say of Professor James's personality than of his contributions to learning, and taken together they give, from different points of view, a very consistent account of a character that has deeply influenced recent generations of Harvard men. A sonnet, taken from "The Critic," comments appropriately, though in rather halting verse, on Mr. James's extraordinary receptivity and human sympathy...