The Harvard Graduates' Magazine for June is out. As frontispiece is a portrait of President Eliot, engraved by G. Kruell. The likeness is admirable. It is especially interesting in comparison with Mr. Eliot's class photograph, which is reproduced farther on in the number. The two are given in connection with a general review of President Eliot's administration of twenty-five years.
What has been achieved at Harvard, largely through the energy of her president, during the last quarter of a century, is here set forth in three articles;- "President Eliot's Administration," by Charles F. Dunbar '51, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; "Harvard Medical School," by William L. Richardson '64, Dean; and "Harvard Law School," by C. C. Langdell '51, Dean. It would be out of the question even to suggest all that these articles contain. With part of this many of the students are in a general way familiar; and all should be so.
Such of the results of President Eliot's administration as can be summarily expressed, are found in William R. Thayer's comparison of the Harvard College of 1869 with that of today. The contrasts forcibly brought out in such a comparison are some of them of vital importance in measuring the advance which Harvard has made. Others, of less importance, are equally interesting as mere matters of statistics. No accumulation of statistics, however, can represent the effect of President Eliot's influence during the past twenty-five years. The material growth of the University is indeed worthy of notice, but it is for the changes in the aims and relations of the various departments and for their intellectual achievement that the University is more particularly indebted to the President.
The remainder of the number is taken up by "Harvard Explorers in Central America," C. P. Bowditch '63, and "Instruction in Physical Geography," W. M. Davis '69. There is also an account of the Latin Play which furnishes the first satisfactory record of that success. The Latin programme is reproduced in full, together with the placard and the ticket used at the performances. A quotation from Professor Greenough's original prologue is given and all the noticeable features of the play are commented on. The article is by H. W. Haynes '51.
Under the head of "The University" for the first time a number of pages are devoted to the interests at Radcliffe College, which is now regarded as closely connected with the University.
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