Word: authority
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Sketches of many of the distinguished men who have been connected with the college are interspersed throughout the book. The author dwells at some length upon the notable part which the literary societies have played in the history of Princeton...
...author fails signally in accomplisbing what he states at the outset is not difficult, "to define the really patriotic attitude for the undergraduate in the present crisis." Perhaps he believes that Harvard students feel competent to lay down the law as to the actions of the administration, or willing to support the nation with loyalty of a "possibly illogical nature." Perhaps he thinks the present Senior class will agree with him in his picture of the men they honored by refusing to withdraw their names from the list of Class Day Officers, as "scrambling for a landing in Cuba" under...
...present Advocate contains several interesting stories, none of which, however, are worthy of especial praise. The short sketch, "When the Lepers Left Kalalan, " is the best piece of writing in the number. The anonymous author has started out in a style of story not often found in a college paper, and worthy of more cultivation. "Dexter's Discovery" is a new version of a story we have all read before either in the Advocate or in some other college magazine. It seems rather a waste of good material that so many men should try their hands at this same...
...leaves the ordinary path of the college story and strikes out in a road of his own. The tale is perhaps best described as a character sketch in which the main figure is shown under varying conditions. The reader's interest continually increases until the very end when the author breaks off abruptly and leaves the climax to the imagination. The effect of this style is good and places the sketch above the ordinary run of college stories...
...Huntress '99 has written a criticism of seven books on Harvard life. The author makes the mistake of dwelling at length on "Harvard Stories" and " Harvard Episodes," with which all are so familiar, and devoting but short, impersonal criticisms to the earlier books which but few know about...