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There appeared recently in the Alumni Bulletin the following article by Robert Bacon '80, Chairman of the Board of Syndies, summarizing the accomplishments of the University Press. It will be seen that although the Press has been established only for a short time, it has made great strides; and in devoting its energies "exclusively to the distribution of scholarly work produced in a scholarly manner" it is adding great distinction to the name of the University...
...publication of the first catalogue of the Harvard University Press calls forcible attention to the service which such an institution can render to scholarship as well as the University. This list of more than 230 books, dealing with many subjects all intimately connected with the teaching and research carried on at the University, indicates more clearly than could any direct statement the healthy growth of productive scholarship at Harvard. The distribution of this list is but one of the many ways in which the Harvard Press is making this scholarship known throughout the world...
...function of a university press has often been misunderstood and has sometimes been interpreted in widely different ways. The need for such a press lies in the fact that some of the most creditable work of the foremost scholars of the world is not sufficiently profitable commercially to tempt the regular publisher. A subsidized institution, however, specially organized to deal with books of this character, can do much to advance scholarship by making possible the prompt publication and wide dissemination of the results of scientific research. Such a press can also advance the prestige of the University by issuing over...
...page catalogue of recent publications by the University Press contains many books of interest. Among the first to be mentioned are the William Belden Noble Lectures on "The Spiritual Message of Dante," delivered here last year by Canon Boyd-Carpenter of West-minster Abbey, England. There are included in the volume four ancient portraits of Dante and some notable, quaint reproductions from the illustrations to Lord Vernon's famous "Inferno." Canon Boyd-Carpenter, for twenty-seven years Bishop of Ripon, has long been recognized as a student of Dante, though this is the first book he has ever written...
Another event of importance to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is the establishment of the Harvard University Press, and the accompanying concentration of the scattered publications of instructors and advanced students in various fields of learning. The value of such an undertaking for the Graduate School does not need to be set forth, but the Press cannot reach its full usefulness without an increase in its resources. Scholarly investigation would also be advanced by the better endowment of the various series of departmental publications, for which the supply of excellent material is frequently in excess of the funds...