Magazine of Reviews Reviewed

The present number of the Graduates' Magazine is an interesting one, particularly by reason of the large number of books by Harvard men appearing in the advertisements, in the lists of books received, and in the reviews. They should answer for many the rising question of "What Shall I Give for Christmas?" One of the most timely titles is Professor E. C. Pickering's "Opposition of Eros in 1914." The reviewer states that "observations, not only of the relative, but also of the absolute, value of Eros, are much to be desired this year." The editor makes extended comment on recent books on the war, a number of which he is clearly minded to place under the heading "More German Atrocities." More in the line of peace is the frontispiece, a facsimile of the manuscript of "America," recently presented to the College Library. It is well worth framing. Professor Royce contributes a brief "Word for the Times," which, too, is well worth framing, especially the thoughts he puts in the mouth of the youth of today. Professor Fitch discusses "Religion and the Undergraduate," and tries to find why a larger proportion of students do not come under the formal religious teaching of the University. He thinks we need more doctrinal preaching. One wonders if the strongest call to ingenuous youth does not come in preaching, as in teaching, through large and human personality. Dr. Fitch's own success would seem to answer in the affirmative.

Mr. Richard H. Dana discusses the recent boat race from the point of view of an old oarsman who has constantly kept up his interest in the sport. Horace Parker Chandler '64 gives some very interesting reminiscences of his college days. The editor has an article on the subject of raising the tuition fee, now much discussed in academic circles. As Mr. Thayer is an Overseer as well as an editor, his article is probably a trial balloon to see how the graduates will take the subject.

Mr. E. B. Drew '63 writes again, out of the fulness of his knowledge, of the Harvard Medical School in China. "It is altogether just to add," he says, "that nowhere perhaps in the wide world is there a people that stand more in need of sanitary and medical science; and nowhere is to be found a race more deserving of these benefits whether by their native physical vigor or by their admirable national qualities."

Professor C. N. Greenough writes of an experiment in English A and attempts to turn it into a "Bureau for the Encouragement of Habitually Good English," which brings us back (potentially) to our starting point, mention of the large number of books by Harvard men listed in this number of the Magazine.