Word: review
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first issue of "The Review," the new weekly magazine in which a large number of graduates of the University are actively interested, was published recently in New York. The purpose of the journal is to "resist the unthinking drift towards radical innovation." Harold deW. Fuller '98, A.M. '00, Ph.D. '07; formerly editor of "The Nation" is treasurer of the weekly, and Rodman Gilder 99 is business manager...
With the publication of the first number of the new "Review", however, we discover a real prospect of a constructive intellectual paper, which appreciates the true meaning of the words "liberal", and "conservative." A glance at the first paragraph of this new periodical's program fills us with a new hope and belief. To quote...
...review of the changes in curricula adopted by the American colleges in general as a result of the Great War, impresses upon us the fact that Harvard is taking a distinct stand of her own in the matter of scholastic reform. Other colleges are modifying their entrance requirements, or laying emphasis on particular studies of a practical nature; Harvard has reformed her system with a view to increasing undergraduate interest in scholarship. We cannot but feel that the University has taken the better considered course, and at the same time has struck at the real root of the problem...
Prescott W. Wellman 13, and Mr. Cloyd Laporte '16, President, of the Law Review...
...their preliminary announcement, the editors said "The Review will be a journal of wide range, and will include, in particular, adequate discussion of great international questions. It will be animated by a spirit of progress, will welcome and promote needed projects of social improvement, but will insist upon the maintenance of those things which must be preserved if the nation is to remain a people of self-reliant freemen. The publication of "The Review' has been actuated by a recognition of the urgent need at this time of a journal of serious discussion which should resist the unthinking drift towards...