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...fair for a critic to hide behind his own generalizations. The morning friendliness of Mr. Hooker's' establishment is deducible from his cordiality, the basking Purple Pig and even an old grandfather clock. But how much better would it be, not to call the grandfather clock--as old and worn as its face appears "inaccurate"! Not content with stopping here the writer further impairs his picture by insisting on deducing friendliness from "the touching picture of a dying fox surrounded by stiff-looking hounds." One may find pathos in the scene and an engendered sympathy for the fox within himself...
...critic a magazine for review affords all the delights of lingering in a museum. No single author thrusts his chronology upon you and one is free to ignore the order of the signatures and to follow the lure of titles. The pleasure of finding the defect of this writer cured in the work of another, and of appraising the relative values of each is added to that of finally referring the whole to the absolute, the universal standards...
...shown in the meet with Princeton next Saturday we will have a victory of points. Comparative times and records promise an extremely close match; it is for the track team to continue its good work and take the outcome of the meet out of the reach of the critics' calculations by again adding the indeterminable elemen of fight which no critic can reckon in points...
...repeat it: some of my best friends are at Harvard. They are Princetonian studying in the graduate schools. And one of the chief reasons why they are my friends is because they join me in a daily even-song: "To Hell With Harvard!" --Campus Critic, In The Daily Princetonian...
...Aristocrat," has quietly arrived in our midst; an unassuming and sedate four-page weekly, without illustrations, without any militant purpose, without any of the flavor of ordinary undergraduate life, without any likeness to the other college magazines. "The "Aristocrat" announces that "not with the eye of philosopher or critic, avoiding the quip and lesson of reformer, standing aside from bustle," it treads "the ways of antiquity," and it offers the modest hope that it may "calm the undergraduate mania for achievement with a leaven of whimsical humor...