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...Advocate is a truer indication of the standard which the Advocate will endeavor to maintain this year than was the first issue. For not only does it follow the first with laudable promptness, but the contents are of greater depth and are altogether more readable. "In Memoriam," though a bit philosophical, is blank verse of a quality which justifies its form. "Amina" is a story of mystery, skilfully handled and not too perplexing to excite interest, while "The Unbeloved," a tale somewhat in the vein of Thomas Hardy, is witty and has convincing characters. Although the characters in "The Best...
...Kempner '06 as Subtle, the alchemist around whom the action centres, carried off a difficult part effectively and with full appreciation of the possibilities of the role. As Drugger, a tobacco man, a minor part originally played by David Garrick, D. C. Manning '04 gave a clever and finished bit of acting; and as Face, P. E. Osgood '04 acted creditably a part requiring great swiftness of action and much ingenuity. K. K. Smith '04, as Dol, the accomplice of Face and Subtle, was convincingly feminine, and without overdrawing, infused, a great deal of spirit and dash into the role...
...most individual bit of writing in the last Advocate is "Undergraduate Criticism," by C. J. Hambleton. The author has something worth while to say, he says it with precision and picturesqueness, and when he has said it, he stops. It is to be hoped that our voluminous undergraduate critics will profit by his example as well as his advice. "When I was a Duke," a story by D. W. Streeter, scarcely smacks of the British nobility, yet it sets forth an amusing situation in Irish language. A good natured, Chinese cook who artistically stabs a man between sips...
...last number of the Lampoon contains three jokes. Two of these are drawings; the other is a clipping from the CRIMSON. Of the humorous drawings, the "Freshman impressing his family with his college experiences," is an excellent bit of characterization accomplished with few strokes; while the Hi. mister! scramble a nut," gives us something really new and refreshing on the squirrel question. A page drawing by Breck '07, is without character, and forms an excellent illustration for the accompanying "joke." The idea expressed in the centre page is of well tried excellence, but careless drawing makes it less effective than...
...whole: the blacks and the whites are badly massed; as a total composition it is not pleasing. Moreover the drawing does no more than illustrate the text; it does not of itself add to the humor. The sketch on the opening page is appropriately "impressionistic." Perhaps the cleverest bit of drawing in the number is the illustration at the top of page 53, a joke made new by interpretation. These figures are alive; here are expressed energy, character, action, and humor. In a small space the draughtsman has said much and said it well...