Abstract

Fair Harvard

The article discusses the book "The Development of Harvard University, 1869-1929," edited by Samuel Eliot Morison. The book opens with an introduction containing an account of the Government and Administration of the Harvard University, which is in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the curriculum of the college, the establishment of Voluntary Worship, and some tables of growth. The description of the somewhat intricate administrative and academic machinery is admirably clear and concise and forms an essential background for detailed studies, which follow. The first twenty-five chapters deal with the various departments of study, which come under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and are written by scholars who have or have had an important part in conducting them. The remaining thirteen describes the growth of the graduate and professional schools, the Blue Hill Observatory and the Library.