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...abounds in well-drawn pictures. "Coward" is a railroad story with an exciting situation but the writer fails to make it very clear why the "coward" deserves to be called by that name. "A Reason for Secrecy" is a vague in its ending but it is a good bit of description. "Adelaide Maurice, 'Cure'," and "A Class Game" are two humorous stories, the former too impossible to be effective, the latter a very amusing story of a college practical joke...
...which he has tried carefully to conceal the large part of his case. When you object that the plan is, as a brief, inadequate, that you see his little game, and that you have already seen it many times among his predecessors in your course, he looks a bit sheepish, but you still have to struggle with him week by week to make him give you a thorough presentation of the whole case, so that you may judge his work on its real merits. The graduate coaches complain of this as heartily as you or 1. The fact means simply...
...most cases this excuse is wanting. "Salem Skinner's Unlucky Day," "A Latter Day Vendetta," and "Miss Sophy's Doughnuts" are all too vague and colorless to invite much interest or remain long in the memory. "The Sensation of Rickerts" is amusing and well handled, though a bit overdrawn here and there; and "His Dress Suit" is a happy-go-lucky, naturally told incident. As the mistaken identity idea is too threadbare to attract attention, "A Hazardous Expedition" amounts to little except as it contains casual references of interest to college men. The side of undergraduate life which is hinted...
...selections of verse are all short but rather better than usual. A short ode, "To the Dandelion," by H. M. Ayres, is a pretty little bit of verse with a light rhythm that suits the subject well. "Sea Gulls," by R. W. Page, is a more rugged poem. The verses have a wild ring that is very suggestive. "An Eagle's Feather," by A. D. Ficke, is short, but in its single stanza it gives a wide range of imagery which is dazzling in effect...
...number contains three poems: A sonnet; a somewhat longer poem called "The Death Chant of the Viking"; and a short bit of literary appreciation--"On a Little Verse." The remaining contributions are: "His Letter," by R. W. Ruhl; "The Young Lady," by G. C. St. John; "Dan Dan'lson of the Yadkin Valley," by R. W. Page; and "The Unbeaten Path," by R. W. Child...