CURRENT ILLUSTRATED REVIEWED

The Illustrated for March, which makes its appearance today, should have been bound in Kahki. It has a decidedly martial aspect for the two leading articles are about summer military camps, and both are in favor of this scheme, the most subtile and dangerous feature of the jingo propaganda.

President Lowell in a single page clearly states that he favors summer training camps because he believes they prepare a man to defend his country, and because the need of such preparation is real. President Lowell's view of the matter, which will probably please "Puck" if not the pacifists, is followed by an article on "Where the Student Camps Really Threaten," by H. A. Larrabee '16. Mr. Larrabee is inclined to adopt the omniscient style which is permissable only in fiction. Possibly that is why Mr. Larabee uses it in his article. At any rate, he dismisses the charge that the camps breed militarism entirely too casually.

The articles are accompanied by interesting pictures of life in the training camp.

The readers are let into the secrets of Phi Beta Kappa elections by C. H. Smith '15, who writes an "inside view" of the elections. The article is full of illuminating facts. This sort of publicity does the society good, and accounts for the growing respect that is being felt for it. When Phi Beta Kappa and its aims and methods are better understood, a key man will get almost as much honor as an "H" man. Articles like "Popular Errors About Phi Beta Kappa" help to bring the man of intellect almost on a par with the man of muscle in the eyes of the University world.

Another society of a somewhat different sort is described in an article by F. T. Spaulding '17 on the notorious "Med. Fac.", traces of whose buffoonery and barrel-stave humor, unfortunately still persist.

Mr. Day, treasurer of Yale University contributes part of a speech on the relations that should exist between Harvard and Yale, which is a Wilsonlike appeal for peaceful relations and for a disregard of the chip-on-the-shoulder attitude assumed by the less civilized collegians.

"College comment" is interesting as usual but it could be much more comprehensive and could be made an even more valuable department. The photographs are not up to the reading matter, but the whole number is creditable even if it smells a bit of gunpowder. It might have been printed at Essen.