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...with grunts. For R. W. Chubb's statement of "The Position of the Internationalists of Europe" the reader will feel grateful for a timely, informative article. There is but one story; better so than to lower the standard. "The Finger of the Muse" advisedly deals in experience true to boy life, and presents it with a light touch that removes crudity. This is not the moment to carp: the "Monthly" is in able hands...
...record of Murray, the wonderful Leland Stanford boy, who flashed on the season, beginning with the defeat of Frederick B. Alexander, Karl Behr, and Walter Merrill Hall, all in one day, at Sleepy Hollow, seems to secure for him a niche at number 3. Behr beat Murray at Newport, 7-5, 6-1, 6-1. On the other hand, Murray won at Southampton; he stood as runner-up to the New York State championship and McLoughlin; he won the New England championship, and the metropolitan title in achieving which he defeated Alexander for the second time, and Washburn...
...course, so unusual an experiment has had its critics. For instance, some think the accommodations too uniform; some complain that it will be a hardship on the very poor boys, who will no longer be able to shrink into remote quarters and hide their poverty. The answer to this is that the poor boy may learn in the cheerful air of comradeship, which should prevail here, that poverty implies no disgrace and is nothing to apologize for. To us the criticisms are hardly worth considering in comparison with the high aim, the democratic results, certain to be achieved...
...longest and most notable prose piece in the July number of the Monthly is "Leaf, Somebody's Son" by A. Calvert Smith. The author makes ingenious use of the small boy's point of view to relate a fragment of the Saga of Eric the Red. The difficult style is well sustained, and the story is remarkable for happily chosen details. The small space devoted to the inner plot will disappoint readers who admire Kipling's "Puck of Puck Hill" series...
...spring clothing collection made by Phillips Brooks House will occur on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Text books will be gladly received as additions to the loan library, and all surplus athletic equipment will be of great assistance in boy's club work...