Harvard's Standards.

Five noted men, James, Royce, Muensterberg, Santayana and Palmer, were not many years ago all teaching in Harvard's department of philosophy and psychology; now the first three are dead, the fourth has gone back to his native continent, and the fifth has retired. A successor as distinguished as any one of them is not immediately in sight, and Harvard must feel deeply her losses in a division of instruction that drew students even from abroad--as the brilliant editor of the Hibbert Journal, L. P. Jacks. Many of the departments even in a university like Harvard are departments whose strength resides chiefly in one man. When an Agassiz or a Shaler dies or retires, a weakening of the reputation of the institution in his branch is taken as a matter of course. But when a department contains a small galaxy of stars whose instruction continues over extended periods, it is equally natural to look for the rearing of brilliant disciples to take their places. Of creditable workers in the fields of philosophy and psychology the United States has a number, but the attainments of none quite suggest him as a successor of James or Royce. --New York Evening Post