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...classical studies by the instructors and advanced students of the Latin and Greek department, of which the first volume has appeared, will undoubtedly be a valuable publication. But many important departments at Harvard are underrepresented except in periodicals published under the auspices of other Universities, such as the Modern Language Notes of Johns Hopkins University or the Psychological Journal edited by the president of Clark University. Our faculty have several times considered the question of establishing a journal representing the University, but thus far with no definite result. A publication like that proposed even if it were only the Library...
...will of a certainty live by their own merit. They lack as a whole, perhaps, the mystical character which he imparted to his earlier works, and yet like these they mingle the worlds of fact and fancy. Love, humor, pathos, all find place here and the classic and the modern are mingled. The little volume is a beautiful piece of bookmaking in binding, paper and printing. A fine engraving of Robert Browning serves as frontispiece...
...collection will be of the greatest service to the university. The great role which the Semitic peoples have played in the history of civilization makes the study of their career a necessary part of a university programme. It is becoming more and more evident that neither ancient nor modern culture can be properly understood without a careful estimate of the Semitic element. The significance of Semitic religious ideas is familiar to us; however we may explain it, the fact remains remarkable that the three monotheistic religions of the world, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, are of Semitic origin and that they...
There remains yet much to be done in the investigation of Semitic thought; the history is to be cleared up, and the literature to be expounded and made intelligible to the modern mind. No small part of the poetry of the Hebrews and Arabs is a sealed book to us though it undoubtedly contains much material that has aesthetic as well as archaeological value. The study of all this mass of history and literature, archaeology and religion is the proper function of a university. The co-existence in a great institution of learning of a number of specialists in various...
...Hapgood contributes a thoughtful paper entitled "Zola's Attack on the Modern Drama." He shows development of the drama through the nine tenth century and the deterioration from art to "movement." His argument is strong; but his views are perhaps a little too gloomy...