The March Graduates' Magazine.

The Graduates' Magazine for March contains, as usual, able discussions of some of the wider questions which interest the University, sidelights on our history, and comment on current matters.

Professor I. N. Hollis h.'99 in an article on "The Stadium" gives a more complete and consequently more interesting account of its inception and construction than we have had before; showing its place both in past growth of the University's permanent athletic equipment, and in the future development and beautification of Soldiers Field. "Early Views of Harvard College" are notes on various early pictures of the College between 1726 and 1805. These pictures, two of which are reproduced, show us the changes that occurred in the outer appearance of the buildings and the Yard in those years; and the bits of history and description in the notes make real again the times with which most of us are acquainted only through cursory glances at the pictures in the stairway of Gore Hall.

"A Criticism of Harvard Architecture Made to the Board of Overseers," is a protest on the part of Professor Norton against the hasty manner in which the Corporation entrusts the proper ordering of the buildings which it undertakes to the hands of architects, who, though esteemed competent in the community, have given evidence in recent buildings of failure to discharge satisfactorily the responsibility imposed upon them. Professor Norton deplores the fact that suggestions of the department of Fine Arts have been ignored and suggests that a committee of consulting architects be appointed to report on designs for all new buildings.

An article on "Harvard Oarsmen," by G. L. Meylan '00, ought surely to allay the fears of those who are anxious about, the mental and physical welfare of our rowing men. It shows conclusively that Harvard oarsmen do not die prematurely, and that they live longer than the average of healthy men accepted by life insurance companies. Furthermore, it shows that, taking "Who's Who in America" as a standard, a far larger percentage of oarsmen attain distinction that of graduates as a whole.

"Deturs and the Man Who Gave Them" is a reprint of Dr. Edward Everett Hale's address in Sanders Theatre at the award of academic distinctions in December, and "Harvard's Religious Life" is the explanation by Mr. J. D. Greene '96, published in the Evening Transcript, of the cessation of contributions by the University to pew rents in some of the Cambridge churches. Several short articles, a review of several recent biographies, and an abstract of President Eliot's report complete the number.