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...public opinion and the choosing of our leaders. Let us all stand for national honesty and for justice. If we hear of corruption in politics let us not be too hasty to condemn. Remember that those in authority represent the spirit of the time and if that is at fault who is to blame more than...
...very good. The first is much the better of the two. In the second, "The Last Letter," the only fault is that the plot is unreasonable, if not impossible. By far the best thing in the number is "Jim," by C. A. Pierce. It is a story of a small boy who ran away from home and returned, like the prodigal son, to a much better reception than he had any reason to expect. The story is charmingly written. The poetry of the number is not above the average...
...game yesterday was almost as stupid as the one on Tuesday. As then the nine was very weak at the bat. This at present seems to be its chief fault. The infield did not play as good a game as usual all making an error apiece with the exception of Whittemore and he had but one chance. In the outfield Wiggin at centre put up a fine game, catching two difficult flies. O'Malley at left had but one opportunity and this he took. He, however, batted better than any one else on the nine, making three hits...
...tennis men, on the other hand, say that the field was voted to them by the Corporation; that they were advised to put courts upon it this spring, that they would have found no fault with any distribution of the courts this year if the courts had been laid earlier, but that now it is not practicable to lay any courts except on the hard ground taken by the diamond. The Interscholastic Tournament comes a week from Saturday, and this could not be held here with the present limited number of courts...
...fiction of the number, there is once more noticeable an unfortunate lack of originality. The fault in the Advocate stories is not so much in the treatment of the subject as in the subject treated. The articles, at least in the present number, are very well written. It is only the uninteresting assurance of what is to come, that in a measure spoils the pleasure in following the development of a plot...