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"Harvardiana," a college magazine which ran for four years, belongs exactly to the period of Lowell's college life. Looking over it now, it seems to me like all the rest of them. That is, it is as good as the best and as bad as the worst.
There is not any great range for such magazines. The articles have to be short. And the writers know very little of life. All the same, a college magazine gives excellent training. Lowell was one editor of the fourth volume of "Harvardiana. " I suppose he then read proof for the first time, and in a small way it introduced him into the life of an editor,-a life in which he afterwards did a great deal of hard work, which he did extremely well, as we shall presently see.