Editors of the Magazine. WILLIAM ROSCOE THAYER, '81, Editor. WINTHROP HOWLAND WADE, '81, Business Editor NOTICE. THE HARVARD GRADUATES' MAGAZINE is published quarterly, on September 1, December 1, March 1, and June I. The annual subscription is two dollars; single copies, seventy-five cents each. Communications for the Editor should be addressed to Mr. W. R. THAYER, at No. 8 Berkeley St., Cambridge, Mass. All business communications should be sent to Mr. W. H. WADE, at the office of the Association, No. 6 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. THE HARVARD GRADUATES' MAGAZINE. VOL. VII.-JUNE, 1899.- No. 28. A BLOT IN THE 'SCUTCHEON. In his first report to the President, the new Librarian of the University calls attention to a need of the Library which reveals a weak spot, not only in the equipment of the Library itself, but in the whole economy of the University. It would seem to be superfluous at this day to emphasize anew the importance of the Library in the university scheme. "The laboratory of the humanities," "the heart of the university," "the brain of the academic body:" these are some of the phrases which have become common in utterances official and non-official. Especially the laboratory figure has been worked with effect to show that the Library is no longer a mere storehouse of books, but a great workshop, wherein scholars of all grades, teachers and learners alike, have their places. The common phrase, "laboratory method," as applied to the "moral sciences," implies that the very existence of effective instruction along these lines depends upon a suitable provision for the daily practice of all concerned. As the chemical laboratory demands ample supply of chemical materials, ample space for each student, and liberal opportunity for the teacher to pursue his own researches in close association with the students whose work he directs, so the effective use of the Library makes precisely similar demands. A chemical laboratory with no room for a teacher would be a ludicrous anomaly. In the other departments of natural science, the same necessity has been seen and liberally provided for. The analogy between the demands of the "moral" and natural sciences in this regard has been recognized at almost every great |