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There is an excellent editorial article, "Concerning Activities," in the current number of the Harvard Monthly. Its concluding sentence defines an ideal of the first importance both to undergraduates and to the fusty old fellows into which some of them will grow: "We need more of the amateur spirit, more devotion of our best to the things we really like...
...category of criticism, also, "The Old Ideal: A Retort," by Hiram Kelly Moderwell must be placed. When the Monthly printed in April a defence of the beauty of aristocracy, it must have been clear that the other side should have its say. Mr. Moderwell takes up the cudgels for democracy, and plies them with no little skill and force. The preaching on either side is of the sort which will comfort most those who are already converted. The Monthly's own editorial comment on the opposing discourses suggests the really significant thing about them: "is it no inconsiderable achievement...
Gilbert V. Seldes's essay on "The Old Ideal" may fairly be taken as the manifesto of the reaction. Itself a paean in honor of tradition and the aristocratic ideal, it misses through a touch of petulance something of the repose it praises and something of fairness in attributing all the modern characteristics it censures to a socialism that has not yet come to pass. It would be a graceful acknowledgment of the soundness of the idea that the recent policy of the paper erred by over-emphasizing, if in the next number the editors found room for an essay...
...laws which that progress itself has revealed. So we may now distinguish between the skilled mechanic and the newer type, the engineer. The former is actuated by commercial motives only; the latter, the creation of the advance in natural sciences, possesses knowledge rather than skill and has for his ideal the ultimate benefit of mankind. This latter type is the man we refer to when we speak of the engineer; his profession is engineering...
...Underwood, who has had much experience in the woods, showed interesting pictures of an ideal trip through the forests of Maine and New Brunswick, and told some amusing stories of his trips, which, unlike the usual "fish" stories, were verified by the camera. His photographs of moose and deer, taken mostly at night by flashlight, were remarkable, and his story of a young bear, which he captured and "brought up," was both amusing and interesting. Mr. Underwood is a strong advocate of "hunting with a camera", and much prefers this method to the more cruel use of the rifle, which...