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...review on a day near the end of the trying mid-year examination period, two hundred Freshmen,--and the outburst is easily explained. True, the public cannot know these facts, but the writer of your communication could if he would. And the question of Harvard and the Press has been discussed at length; it is not germane to the present question, viz that of placing a false construction on the somewhat thoughtless and wholly non-signifying, as far as their opinions are concerned, outbreaks of noise by the restless undergraduate by men who should have more regard for fact...
That the foundation of the Harvard University Press is to exert an influence of the highest order in the field of learning and will be a strong factor in the advance of scholarship is recognized generally by the public press. We are quoting below an editorial from the Springfield Republican which illustrates very forcibly the attitude of the outside press toward the importance of the new University foundation. The editorial, printed in full, follows...
...foundation of the Harvard press calls attention to the considerable and increasing place in the field of publishing which is being taken by the universities. Fashions spread so fast that it will perhaps not be long before a printing press will seem as indispensable to an ambitious university as a gymnasium, and the literary "output" will become as important as the number of students in attendance. The trade publishers will not suffer, for universities are not given to producing "best sellers," and most of their books a publisher could not well afford to bandle. Yet in addition to publishing records...
...sane, healthy, or even scholarly undergraduate would greatly care whether or not a new influence was coming into the world of thought. Nor would the business American care greatly either. He would not stop his business to read about it. But the founding of a University Press at Harvard, like that at Oxford, or like our own, should be of striking interest to both. The Harvard Press is for the publication of books. It is to carry on the small publishing work done by the Publication Office of that University, and it will care for more. The Press will give...
...William Osler, h.'04, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University, England, has consented to deliver a lecture here in April on the Oxford University Press in connection with the establishment of the new Harvard University Press. During his visit he also will deliver an address at the opening of the Peter Brent Brigham Hospital at the Medical School, Brookline...