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...Present issue of the Advocate contains the same general kind of work as heretofore. The editorials are timely and neatly told. In "In the Fine Arts Lecture," by G.L.K., we have a simple bit of student rumination, clever, but not over-skillful. "The Leisure that Makes Men," is evidently a new departure into the light essay field long ago made agreeably famous. "The Story of the Man who Sat in the Stocks," by Ezra Kidd, is perhaps as powerful and well told a sketch as needs be expected from an undergraduate pen. By far the best story in the number...
...Gentlemen--I am afraid I can't say anything. I have just been inveigled here by my friend, Mr. Cobb. I can only say that I am not a bit afraid for the students of Harvard College, because I know in Mr. Hurlbut's hands they will be looked after well, and I can only hope that when I give up my present work, I shall still see a great deal of the students of Harvard College. I am sure they can get along without me, but I know I can't go along without them...
...most finished bit of poetry in the number is the sonnet by R. Pier '03, entitled "A Statute." "Astronomy," by G. L. Kobbe '03 is a neat little bit. Other contributions in verse are "Lux," by C. G. L., Jr., "The Messenger," by D. W. Stockbridge and an anonymous quatrain, "Wordsworth...
...Address to Radcliffe Graduates," by C. E. Norton, '46, is a graceful bit of advice as to some of the objects and results of education. To quote: "The final aim and effort of civilization is to make life pleasanter; and this is the object of what we call good manners. . . . Manners,' as Emerson says, 'are the happy ways of doing things,' and the the best manners are those which have their root in habitual self-respect and in consideration for others." Good manners, the use of moral influence, the cultivation of an inner life, all are urged as due from...
...Chin Wee," a poem, also unsigned, is a clever bit of versification -- nothing more. "The Eagle," by Roy Pier, is pleasing in conception and imagery, but halting in its rhythm. "On Lafayette Square," a prose article by R. Inglis, which concludes the number, is a good attempt at a difficult character sketch...