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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Greene, and its companion piece. "The Importance of Being a Sport," by H. E. Porter, remind us of one of the best Advocate periods,--some fifteen years ago, when Mr. Flandran and his contemporaries were describing Harvard Types." But with this difference today the dissecting of the victim seems kindlier; the sareasm almost genral...

Author: By T. T. Baldwin, | Title: Review of Current Advocate | 5/24/1909 | See Source »

...said that class spirit in Harvard College is declining; that it is a thing of the past, a victim of the elective system. It is said that mere numbers have driven it out, and that, therefore, small colleges are preferable, since in them true class feeling exists. What are the evidences of class spirit? Class organization, which today is a thousand times more effective than ever before, activity of class secretaries, more vigorous celebrations, all go to show that class spirit at Harvard today is stronger than when Harvard was itself a small college. Is not this sure evidence that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT ELIOT'S SPEECH | 1/10/1906 | See Source »

...quite come off. Successful caricature should result in characterization; it should remain essentially true, for its exaggeration is only for the sake of emphasis. But the sketch, though only a farce, is nevertheless amusing. In the present number the Freshmen have overshadowed the Faculty. The lines entitled, "Thou Victim of Insomnia," are more clever than kindly...

Author: By Carleton Noyes., | Title: Lampoon Criticism by Mr. Noyes. | 11/13/1903 | See Source »

...conversation ensues between Iphigenie and one of the strangers and she learns to her horror that the intended victim is her own brother, Orestes. She then reveals her own identity to him and together they plan a means of escape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The German Play | 3/13/1900 | See Source »

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