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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...three main stories, "Sophomores Three" is easily the most readable. It has quaintness and charm, qualities not often found in college periodicals. "A Money-making Scheme" is a novel incident amusingly described with a good deal of college atmosphere. The author of "An Indiana Pioneer" evidently knows his ground thoroughly and has covered it well...
Other noteworthy articles are "The Dog's View of It," "How Our Coming Orators are Cultivated," and a short sketch purporting to be written by the author of "Jerome Poor Thing...
...Rose endeavors to shift the blame for the harm the book is likely to do the University from Mr. Flandran's shoulders, to those of the publishers. It is indeed unfortunate that the book was not called "Wolcott the Magnificent, and other Harvard Episodes," as it is said the author desired...
John Corbin '92, is the author of "School-boy Life in England," just issued by Harper and Bros., New York City, This is a most attractive volume and will be of especial interest to Harvard men and to men in the preparatory schools of this country. Mr. Corbin, it may be remembered, spent a year after graduation as a student at Oxford and later he made another trip to England, spending the summer there and living successively at the several great public schools...
...book is, however, engrossing and exceedingly clever. A distinct power of analysis and observation appears in every story, clear vision combining with fearless statement to produce conviction in the reader's mind. We are indebted to the author for the best written book of fiction that has yet appeared on the subject of Harvard life, although narrow in its treatment...