UNIVERSITY PRESS GROWS

The Harvard University Press has developed naturally from a small printing office established some fifty years ago by the College for taking care of examination papers and miscellaneous printing needed in various offices. In the course of time this little shop was enlarged sufficiently to print the Official Register, and a Publication Agent was appointed to supervise the distribution of such pamphlets. On January 13, 1913, the Harvard University Press was formally established by the President and Fellows as a department of the University, and a Board of Syndics was appointed, a committee of seven professors and business men whose chief function is to pass upon the availability of manuscripts submitted for publication. In 1916 the business was removed from the very small quarters in the College Yard to Randall Hall.

In the seven years of its existence, the Press has built up a list of over three hundred titles. These embrace technical works in science, history, law, economics, philosophy, and literature of great value in the field of scholarship, including such series as the Harvard Historical Studies, the Harvard Economic Studies, the Harvard Oriental Series, the Harvard Business Studies, and the Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature. Among works published by the Press and not strictly included in this category should be mentioned Hoppin's "Euthymides and His Fellows" and "A Handbook of Attic Red-Figured Vases," Beazley's "Attic Red-Figured Vases in American Museums," Courtney Langdon's translation of Dante, Professor Kittredge's "The Old Farmer and His Almanack," Professor Grandgent's "Old and New," Hillyer's "Sonnets and Other Lyrics," and Phoutrides' translation of Kostes Palamas' "Life Immovable." The Press also issues the Journal of Industrial Hygiene, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Harvard Theological Review. Practically all the manufacture of these publications, except the binding, is carried on in Randall Hall