ILLUSTRATED "INTERESTING"

Although it is, if you please, a difficult task to characterize, in a few hundred words, such a variety and range of subject matter as is contained in the May number of the Illustrated, still it is comparatively easy to do so in a single word. That word is "Interesting."

Photographs, when well taken, never fail to arouse our interest and stimulate our curiosity; and those of this month's Illustrated are clear, full of action, and wide in their range of appeal. It is this last quality, this cosmopolitanism, which is, I think, to be commended. For we have graphically and strikingly presented to us many phases of American college activity,--from diabolo at Yale, in fact, to the Tech. Rush, or the class presidents of Harvard.

From a survey of the Photographs who can avoid passing to at least a glance at the reading matter? And once caught our attention is held. Here too there is food for every taste.

"Culture or Cramming."

Two articles appealed most to me personally. One was on "Culture or Cramming," in which, under a rather sensational title, Mr. Larrabee gives a very broad-minded, sane, and--again I repeat the word--interesting exposition of his views on the present well-read-ness (or better, if I must coin a word anyhow) ill-read-ness of the average Harvard undergraduate.

The other essay which particularly held my attention is one on "How Harvard News Becomes Distorted." With most entertaining examples, Mr. Kennedy shows us--but the space assigned me for reviewing this "Interesting" number of the Illustrated has come to an end; and you must read for yourself.