In its November issue the Harvard Progressive maintains a precise balance between local ware and the world's wars by printing two articles on Harvard problems and two on the world's affairs, while a fifth occupies both territories by means of an examination of Harvard's transition toward the martial spirit in 1914-1915. As a whole the issue reaches a high standard both in the breadth and significance of its material and in the vigorous fashion in which it is presented.

In an article entitled "Harvard's Forgotten Men," Professor Samuel H. Cross '12, one of the outstanding Faculty advocates of greater flexibility in dealing with the tenure problem, argues the proposition that the new style Associate Professorships should be utilized to meet the educational needs which have already become apparent in the brief life of the new dispensation. In its simplest form the proposal is that the threatened gap in undergraduate instruction be filled where necessary and within existing budgetary limitations by the creation of associate professors on permanent tenure for whom there is no vacancy calculably in sight in the full-professorial ranks. The contention that Harvard education is threatened with a serious impairment unless this policy is adopted is one which the present reviewer is wholly prepared to endorse.

In "Citadels of Snobbery" Rufus W. Mathewson, Jr. '41, attacks the club system as a Harvard evil which appears to be on the wane but which still plays a large role in certain limited sectors of Harvard undergraduate life.

The article which has perhaps the most lasting significance is the somewhat discouraging review of Harvard's reaction to the first year or two of the World War by G. Robert Stange '41. The theme which is here introduced is one which runs throughout the present issue: the fear that America will be again drawn into the European war. The warnings deduced from a survey of the past are bolstered by an editorial based upon the new program of the Student Union and by a reasoned plea of Porter Sargent '96, for a greater wariness in the face of a new onslaught upon us by British propaganda. The picture which Mr. Stange presents is one of a rapid drift away from a combination of indifference and pacifism toward the general acceptance of the need for preparedness and even of some militarism for its own as well as for the Allied sake.

The one clear conclusion to which this reviewer came was that Harvard's war is both more clear-cut in its aims and more vigorously conducted than the odd affair which is languishing on the Western front.