The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-03

The author. Herbert w Horwll. holds
that they are not. as some fear. in danger
they should content themselves with serv-
Ing preparatory schools TO the universe
ties, instead OF trying TO rival them, and
yet al the same time supply sufficiently
liberal education 10 students whose school
career must end with them The maya
zine opens with a paper on Trusts and
Goodwin Smith contributes paper
wellington washington During the
Reconstruction Period" is the subject of
PAPER by Samuel +. Mccall. other con-
tributions are: My Cookery Books by
Elizabeth Robins Pennell; AT the End of
moose region by Ma ximilian Foster; "Criti-
cism and Aesthetics an essay by Ethel
II. Pufer, and "A Hermt's Notes on
Thoreau,' by Paul Elmer More. In fiction
are two short stories and the installments
OF Miss Jewett's and Miss Johnstons
serials. This second installment of the
latter. Audrey" sustains the promise of
the opening chapter, and IL seems likely
that the story will have equal attractive
ness with ITO Have and 10 Hold.
In an article on the Young Mems Chris
tan Association in the June number of the
North American Review the author, DR.. l..
l.. Doggettt. has this to say of the future
OF the organization: Whether the Young
Mems Christian Association has reached
its final form no one would be bold enough
tc affirm 1t is remarkable that it should
have grouped together such a variety of
agencies upon the simple platform of young
men advancing the Kingdom of Christ
among young men. Through the three
PERIODS of its development the association
has evolved into an institution with
enlarged ideal closely akin to that of the
Christian University. It is still animated
by the evangelistic. spiritual purpose of the
original band or young men who rallied
around George Williams more than fifty
seven years ago. But. while keeping upper
most this ideal. it has endcavored TO do
In q popular way, for the multitudes OF
Of ntsf H. sF..t-
tan University, In a more scholarly way
Is doing for the young men who are to
enter the professions. This changed ideal
Will dominate the future. IL has the same
high aim as In the past. but n is larger
and more far-reaching. Ii during the past
twenty years the association has increased
tenfold. IL may not be too much 10 antici-
pate that II Will become very much greater
In Tie opening years of the new century.
At is estimated that $250.0V0.C00 is invested
irs institutions OF learning. chiefly for train
ing the men who are TO enter the profess
slons ana the higher walks OF business.
Ii dur.nS the past twenty-five years S26,O00,
0A has been invested in the association
enterp ise. it is likely that a still greater
sum Viii be devoted TO this cause during the
coming nifty years. Without doubt the as
sOciat.Ons OF the future will not only be
pfoviaed with buildings, but with at least
Partial endowment"
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's serial.
THE Making of a Marchioness," which
begins in the June issue of the Century.
cleverness during her long silence. The
story, whose is laid in England,
promises to be unusually entertaining.
College interests are given considerable at
;ention in this number of the magazine.
The opening paper deals with the subject
oil Working Ones Way through College"
In the old days students who could only
obtain their education by such self-help
had TO depend upon their own energies and
enterprise, not only to do the work, but
TO find it, Now every large college has
its bureau or agency TO which students
may apply. sure OF finding something to
which they can turn their hands. Presl-
dent Hadley, of Yale, and Provost Harri-
son. OF the University OF Pennsylvania,
have each a paper treating OF ALLEGED
Luxury Among College Students" They
assert that so long as rich mems sons
attend college they cannot be restrained
from surrounding themselves with luxures
III they choose, but IL they undertake to
do class work seriously luxury becomes a
secondary thing with them and has not
the enervating effect upon them or the
diseouraging influence on the poorer stu
dents that might be thought. On the con-
trary. both writer's hold a college is an
extremely democratic institution and both
classes OF students are benefited by asso-
cation with refnements which they had
not before known, the other by learning
that the purchasing power of money has
its limitations and that poor men. If they
possess certain qualities and abilities may
advance beyond themselves in intellectual
standing and in popularity. a little essay
by Woodrow Wilson entitled when a
Maj. Comes TO Himself is perhaps also in
tended for newly graduated college men.
Walter Camp contributes a paper on Col
lege Training Tables: Their Use and
Abuse. The approaching convention OF
Young Mems Christian Associations gives
especial interest to a paper the work
of the association in Europe. A feature
OF the number Is the first paper by Grover
Cleveland THE Venezuelan Boundary
Controversy. 'Tolstoi's Moral Theory of
n rive in fhn
Century's college competition for 1900 Its
author is John Albert Macy. OF Harvard.
Several short stories and poems add 10
the interest OF the number.