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...President Eliot's book consists of miscellaneous addresses and magazine articles written during the past twenty-five years. The reason of their being mainly social and political-a fact which at first strikes the reader with surprise-is explained in the preface; it is merely because the educational addresses and papers are reserved for another volume. There are, however, in this volume a good many passages relating to education, and one entire essay discusses the question "wherein popular education has failed." What is striking about the book, coming from the President of the oldest American university, is that his field...
...Decadeney," being a retort to Max Nordau, "Lest We Forget" borrows its title as well as its metre from Kipling's Recessional, but beyond this and its religious character the connection is not clear. In fact, the second half of the poem will be a puzzle to the ordinary reader...
Among the book reviews is a somewhat testy criticism of "Harvard Episodes" which is likely to impress the average reader as rather overdone...
TENOR with fine voice and good reader can receive vocal lessons and give services in return in church. I have trained many Glee Club men. Voices tested free. R. N. Lister, 19 Putnam avenue, Cambridge...
...book is, however, engrossing and exceedingly clever. A distinct power of analysis and observation appears in every story, clear vision combining with fearless statement to produce conviction in the reader's mind. We are indebted to the author for the best written book of fiction that has yet appeared on the subject of Harvard life, although narrow in its treatment...