The June Atlantic is, of all the numbers of the year, most interesting to Harvard men. Perhaps first in importance to athletic men is Mr. S. E. Winbolt's article on "Rowing at Oxford." American college students, and Harvard men in particular, have by no means an exhaustive knowlege of affairs at English colleges; and every man would do well to read Mr. Winbolt's paper in which he gives a careful account of the year's aquatic program at Oxford, showing the method of selecting freshmen for the crews, the course of training, the races themselves; and in fact, of all that has to do with the "system of river sport that has gradually developed at Oxford during the present century, its hierarchy of clearly defined gradations, its centralization, and its working results."
To admirers of Goethe, and particularly to all men in German 4, Mr. William P. Andrews' three articles on "Goethe's Key to Faust," the last of which appears in the June Atlantic, cannot fail to interest and delight; and to all who have hopelessly struggled through the intricacies of the philosophical thought of the Second Part of Faust, this paper will prove a god-send, for the article is a masterly delineation of the character and thought of this greatest of Goethe's poems.
Other articles of interest to Harvard men are "Abraham Lincoln" by Carl Schurz (a paper which occupies the place of honor), "Reminiscences of Professor Sophocles," by Prof. Palmer, and "Classical Literature in Translation," by Richard G. Moulton.
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