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...Banjo Club opened Part II. of the programme with the Armanini waltz, which called forth an encore. The club is an addition to the "popularizing element" in these concerts. The "Little Tycoon Waltz" is a very pretty bit of music and won its hearty encore. The "Bill of Fare," a quartette by Messrs. Honore, Shippen, Howard and Willard, was the hit of the evening, and was very drolly sung...
...November Afternoon," the first article of the number, is an admirable bit of verse and shows a powerful imagination in the writer. There is something weird about the poem, which tends to make it all the more attractive. This is, I believe, the first bit of verse which the writer has ever published in the Advocate...
...poetry, Mr. Carman's "Violets" is a very charming bit, which does credit to its author. The poem is not wearisome nor "long drawn out," as might be expected from the extreme simplicity of the subject. Some of the stanzas are pure poetry. Take as an example...
...Venus Victrix" of the same author, and in this, perhaps, lies its chief fault. It should have come first and so prevented the disappointment we must feel on comparing the two. "The Message" is scarcely up to the usual standard of the Monthly, though it is a fair bit of verse, and, coming as it does from a new contributor, gives promise of better work in the future...
...these disadvantages, the eleven has no suitable ground to practice on, and is obliged to practice on a wretched bit of turf back of Divinity Hall. Now, why cannot cricket have its share in the admirable grounds owned by the University? Why cannot the team players set up their wickets in the upper end of Holmes Field, say two afternoons in the week. Such an arrangement would not interfere with the success of a single sport; certainly not at this time of the year. If this were possible, it would probably be the means of adding one more...