The ordinary run of newspaper illustrations has but little interest for college readers - or any other readers, for that matter - but the great effort of Boston's leading art journal, the Globe, yesterday morning, was received with all due appreciation by the undergraduates of Harvard, and must have created quite a sensation in the outside world. Perhaps the favor with which this venture was received may be shown best by the fact that over 500 extra copies of the "Globe" were sold yesterday in Cambridge. But really, this article opens up quite a field for enterprise. It could easily be "worked" in the cases of all classes of society. A series of illustrations of the rooms of prominent Bostonians, together with accurate histories of the persons in question, and spicy accounts of their personal habits, would be quite in line with this sort of journalism, and would, doubtless, prove entertaining reading. Yet it might be that the subjects of this sort of descriptive writing would object. It is not everybody that cares to invite the world into his chamber to inspect his bric-a-brac, and chat over his personal peculiarities. For this reason, then, it is to be hoped that the "Globe" will change slightly the general plan of the next article on Harvard "home life" which it sees fit to publish. Let the rooms be described and illustrated, by all means, for a feature of college life like this is a perfectly legitimate subject for descriptive writing, but let the accompanying biographettes of their inmates be omitted.
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