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...College comment" is interesting as usual but it could be much more comprehensive and could be made an even more valuable department. The photographs are not up to the reading matter, but the whole number is creditable even if it smells a bit of gunpowder. It might have been printed at Essen...
...term "Harvard farmers" may at first sound a bit unusual; but we venture to hope that the founders will not squeamishly label the association "Harvard agriculturalists" or "Harvard husbandmen...
...more for "elegance than force." "When the Suspenders Came Off," a seasonal sketch, by Mr. Ben Sion Trynin, is the largest piece of fiction in this Monthly. It has the makings of a good story, but it is rather rough in workmanship and not always of crystal clearness. The bit of verse following, "From a Warm Room," one is uncertain whether to take seriously or humorously. After this come the "Glimpses," of Paris and of Boston respectively. The former--"Paris: Under a Bridge"--is very good description, except that the writer, with that serene disregard of natural fact which appears...
...next page which contains the brief "By the Ways" would be hopeless were it not for a clever review of "As you like it," in jingling rhyme by J. Garland '15. A charcoal sketch by H. Moise follows, and is quite the most finished bit of work in the number. Lampy takes a fling at Life, and its "poor little kids in the snow," in its center page, T. Sizer '16 and a full-page by H. F. Weston '16, although levity on such themes is not to be encouraged. H. F. Weston '16 has other characteristic drawings...
...Prout (1783-1852) have recently been placed on exhibition. Both drawings were made from the Grande Place, and represent the Hotel de Ville. In one of them the square tower of the famous Cloth Hall appears in the background, and the other one shows two corner turrets and a bit of the Cathedral of St. Martin. These buildings are particularly interesting in the eyes of the world now, because they are said to have been destroyed in the last few weeks by artillery fire...