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...exchange columns in school and college journals to-day are readable. Editors doubtless find them interesting, at times exciting, but general readers almost never find them so. Here, then, is a real fault, - a fault that has but one cure. Exchange editors should talk not in petty small-talk, as so many of them do, but in a way that will involve some generality, some interest to their readers as well as to themselves. The small-talk should more properly be conducted by private correspondence. But whatever is done, extravagance should be avoided...
...many students at least, in regard to the use of the gymnasium for the Cambridge Assemblies. If the closing of the gymnasium for half a day last Saturday, or the inconvenience of having apparatus misplaced for a day or two this week, were the only objection, I suppose little fault would be found; but when, for the benefit of Cambridge people, or of a part of the faculty, the gymnasium is, to a certain extent, rendered unfit for exercise and even dangerous to those who practice there, I think we may fairly complain. Last Saturday the floor of the main...
...fault in our college papers is the fault of youth. We are too ambitious; we try to do too much. A few here may be profound; but the most of us are not. Yet all may strive for sincerity. Lion skins are proverbially poor garments...
...only two, in the college sense of the word. The Advocate is the truest literary production of college journalism in our exchange basket. A little heavy for a b1-weekly, perhaps, but when it is considered that Harvard is apparently without a literary monthly, this is a fault in the right direction. All departments are good, but the poetical would perhaps be bettee did not F. D. S. make it a waste paper basket for the 'Century.' The Lampoon, the only true illustrated paper in the college world, compares most favorably with professional productions of the same nature. The fact...
...present in our college papers there is a strong tendency toward story-writing. The tendency is a good one; for a well told story is interesting, while a poor one is, perhaps, not as bad as some other poor things. Yet too many of the college stories have the fault of open insincerity. A man tries to write of what he cannot so vividly imagine as to make it a part of his own mental experience. His situations are forced, and the whole affair is wretched, - a result of the author's going beyond himself, to paint what...