gazine_ recently
called attention to the distinction between what he calls "cultivation"
and "civilization." As he very aptly states it, "culture according to
the common acceptance of it, is largely the cultivation of the mind;
civilization would seem to be the cultivation of the sympathies, the
tastes, and the capacity for giving and receiving sound pleasures. The
most civilized man is the man with the most catholic appreciation, the
man who can be the most things to the most people--the man, to put it
briefly, who knows best how to live. The man who is civilized can use
all the culture he can get, but he can get on and still be civilized
with a very moderate outfit of it. But the man who has culture and has
not civilization, is very badly handicapped."

Probably no walk of life offers more opportunities for the advantageous
application of what is meant in this quotation by civilization than that
of the architect; and probably in no other profession does the
"civilized" man have greater advantages over his less civilized fellows.

The successful architect requires a broad and catholic culture, but in
addition must be a man of the world in the best and most comprehensive
sense. Opportunities for social improvement will often make the
difference between success and failure in his professional life. On this
account too much stress can hardly be put upon the importance to a young
man of his social environment.

The life in an old university set in the midst of a community where the
traditions of generations of cultivated families have established a
social atmosphere, it might be said, is one of the best and most
powerful civilizing influences. Such an opportunity as this is offered
at Harvard, and it is this which gives to the architectural course at
Harvard its main advantage over that of other schools in this country.

The department itself is comparatively young, having only just completed
its second year. It is under the direction of the faculty of the
Lawrence Scientific School, one of the principal schools of the
University.

Its special corps of instructors consists of Prof. H. Langford Warren
assisted by Messrs. George F. Newton and John W. Bemis. In addition to
this, lectures and instruction are given by members of the Faculty of
Arts and Sciences, which includes the faculty of the Lawrence Scientific
School, Harvard College and the Graduate School, among whom are Prof.
Charles Eliot Norton, Prof. White, Prof