Graduates' Magazine Reviewed

The Graduates' Magazine for June gives us a copy of Charles Hopkinson's portrait of Professor Palmer recently presented to the University and prints the happy words of appreciation spoken by Professor Royce at the dinner in honor of Professor Palmer. Due praise is given for Professor Palmer's share in the growth and development of the Department of Philosophy, but special emphasis is laid on his "power of the single word, of the patiently adjusted expression, of the gemlike sentence or paragraph." In like spirit of appreciation is the Greek epigram by E. K. Rand '94, in honor of Professor Palmer, given also in English verse by the versatile author. It was a happy thought to write in Greek of one who has been so true an expositor of the Greek spirit as has Professor Palmer.

"The Old Stock," verses read by E. S. Martin at the last annual dinner of the Harvard Club of New York, is followed by an appreciation of Judge Lowell by F. J. Stimson, in which the important character of Judge Lowell's decisions is emphasized. The anonymous Graduate from his window amuses himself with what in the main is very good and good-natured fooling at the expense of the recent case of Monthly versus CRIMSON. Professor A. B. Hart describes the new treaty of reciprocity between Harvard and some Western colleges. A very enthusiastic review is given of "The Mediaeval Mind" by H. O. Taylor '78. From the Bulletin of the Royal Gardens at Kew is reprinted an English view of the Arnold Arboretum in which high praise is given the Arboretum and Professor Sargent. An admirably lucid account is given of the present relations between Harvard and the city of Cambridge, which every Harvard man should read. Another number might well contain an article describing the relations of some of the Western universities to their communities, as, for instance, Wisconsin. R. A. Morton, Jr., '11, advocates a system of publicity for the University, and N. Foerster '10 in a pleasant article talks of the summer birds in the Yard. Professor Francke describes the coming Germanic Museum, and C. Kikkawa tells of Harvard's harvest in Japan. L. M. Friedman '93 writes of Judah Morris, a converted Jew, the first instructor in Hebrew; incidentally we get some amusing pictures of life in the College in the eighteenth century; the instructor eked out a living by keeping shop as well as dispensing knowledge; one of his bills was for nearly three pounds of tobacco, pipes and the like for the Corporation. We learn that in 1744 the Reformer was abroad, thundering, "As for the Universities, I believe it may be said their light is now become Darkness, Darkness that may be felt," Morris's tombstone bore this inscription:

"A native branch of Jacob see,

Which once from off its olive broke,

Regrafted from the living tree,

Of the reviving cup partook,

From teeming Lion's fertile womb,

As dewy drops in early morn,

Or rising bodies from the tomb,

At once be Israel's nation born."

E. E. Southard '97 gives a brief notice of Walter Remsen Brinckerhoff, and President Eliot writes on the Harvard Medical School in China, giving an appalling picture of the conditions that prevail in China in the care of health, and pointing out the great good the school may do