Some Harvard "Bests"

The Harvard medical school is now "probably the best in the country."

The institution where the erudite Dean Pound presides is "one of the great law schools of the world."

Dean Donham's business school is "the best of its kind in the country."

The Fogg Art Museum--irreverently called, in other days, the Fogarty--is "the best of its kind in the country."

The university museum is "one of the best."

The astronomical department is "perhaps the best."

The Widener building has "one of the best libraries in the world."

Also, "Harvard requires and gets probably the highest standard of work of any large university in the country." Thus runs a folder, headed "Why Is Harvard Our Greatest University?" which accompanies a request that certain graduates dig for the Harvard fund. Who could help digging after being thus reminded of the glory which is Cambridge?

The superlatives do seem to be some-what more numerous than they would have been if President Eliot or President Lowell had issued the statements, but the circular is really not so immodest after all. It includes one "probably" and one "perhaps," and says nothing at all about the Bussey Institute, the graduate school of arts and sciences, the glass flowers, the recent gratifying football experience with Yale, and the permanent rustication of a young man who wafted a specimen of citrus fruit at Rudy. If this appeal does not make graduates loosen up, they have no sense of relative values and no dollars for absolute worth. Boston Herald.