Review of this Month's Illustrated

The first number of the Harvard Illustrated Mazagine is interesting and informing. Other college papers may be as interesting, but none of course aim to be so informing. The Illustrated is called a magazine, but in reality it resembles rather the weekly illustrated newspaper like Collier's than the monthly like Scribner's. Of the six articles in this number, four are such as one would not expect to find in any other of our college periodicals: the Illustrated, then, has its own place. "Summer School Snap-Shots" by Mr. von Kaltenborn will be a revelation to those who have never deliberately pictured to themselves what Harvard is during the summer session. The two cuts showing Memorial and the tennis courts in feminine possession are a little startling. Mr. von Kaltenborn touches an interesting question in mentioning the attitude of the office in the matter of counting summer courses toward a degree. Mr. Mayer describes the laudable and successful steps lately taken by the University to give graduate students just the kind of lodgings that they want. For Mr. Rogers' description of the new "Department of Social Ethics" perhaps a more illuminating illustration could have been found: for instance a view of the sober, student philanthropist visiting a saloon, or sleeping with a tramp--which he is described as doing--would bring the work home to us as the prospect of the tidy social ethics library does not. Mr. Curtis in "Analysis" tries to wheedle the ambitious into English 18. The remaining two articles are a reasonable view of the football outlook by Mr. Watts, and a story. The editors ought of course to be very much more careful of their diction: "long pants" and "America's greatest educator" occur in one column of the editorials.