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This page is primarily **advertisements with one substantive article** about scholarship in American universities. ## The Main Article: "Mr. Wister Booms Scholarship" Writer Owen Wister addressed Harvard scholars, arguing that American universities lack world-leading experts in any field—unlike Germany. He urged students to achieve "world's records" in scholarship. Wister lamented that American magazines won't publish serious scholarly work and that the intellectual climate discourages top minds, yet he stopped short of blaming the publications themselves, attributing the problem instead to America's general culture. The satire is subtle: **the author (F.N.B.) gently mocks Wister's contradictions**—he wants better scholarship but won't blame the media for ignoring it, and he wants government support for learning while insisting it's "not our Government's business." ## Advertisements The page features liquor ads (Chartreuse, Hunter Baltimore Rye, P.B. Ale), investment bonds, plants, and steamship travel—typical period advertising with appeals to quality and sophistication rather than substantive critique.

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