Accompanying an appreciative editorial by Mr. Ellery Sedgewick, editor of this distinguished journal, there appears in the June Number an article entitled "President Lowell and his Influence." Its author is a Harvard man, F. P. Keppel but not one of that large portion of graduates who have at least a little finger in a little portion of the administrational pie. He writes calmly and with an open mind, covering firstly President Lowell himself, then his theories, his accomplishments, and his mistakes. It is evident that the calm method, combined with that strong admiration which most people feel in the presence of President Lowell's works, is sufficient to cover the man and to list his deeds. But strangely unwilling to go the whole way and make a rich panegyric he soon attempts to make a "debit-entry" for Mr. Lowell. The first entry is hazy enough, and probably means that President Lowell has had no part in the triumphant rise of a great Business School and a great Fogg Art Museum. But elsewhere we are told that Lowell is Harvard's dictator . . . and well there stands Fogg and there the Business School. President Lowell, the author shows has left the Dental School pretty much alone.
The Second entry is not a debit entry at all. It is a four-page mental searching in regard to Harvard's position in relation to other American Universities.
It is true Harvard has, in a remarkably short space of time, broken away both from the old Harvard, and from the general trend of American education. President Lowell's regime has been one of pure experimentation and Harvard has stepped in pulpit position and has pushed bravely on as a doctrinaire.
It is very unlikely that other institutions will not regard Harvard's experiments with as much interest as their own, but even if they should not, and Harvard were to become powerless to influence or be influenced, all would not be lost. It is strong in the minds of many, that since America has well over a thousand universities and colleges, it would not be a catastrophe to have one single university, albeit an important one, be somewhat different from the others.
Another article which takes its cue from this side of the Charles is "College and the Poor Boy Is the Door Closing?" by R. T. Sharpe, secretary of Student Employment at Harvard. Probably the best essay is "A Squire's Complaint," by Walter Pritchard Eaton, the dramatic critic. Mr. Eaton raises his bitter pen against the defilers of our countryside, on the behalf of those urban people who desire to live in it. The government road-builders are shown to be the desecrators they are, and shoddy commercialism in excoriated. One would advise Mr. Eaton to give it all up and move to England.
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