Word: fiction
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...November Advocate show its rejuvenation more strikingly than in its editorials; tinged with a deliciously pungent humor, they stand a sturdy proof that Mother Advocate has abandoned her myopic spectacles of prejudice and reaction to gaze forth once more with the vision of the real Harvard. Prose and verse, fiction and discussion, all show, the same freshness, and are of almost equal merit...
What at college, will take the place of alcoholic liquors as a promoter of contacts, a revealer of sympathetic tastes, a humanizer of stiff and frigid young minds? Why has drink played the important part that it has in college fiction, unless it is that the writers of college fiction have recognized its influence in shaping human relations at college...
...Fiction in the May number upholds, on the whole, the standard. The verse is strong evidence of accomplishment and of promise. Mr. Botkin's "Rondel" is distinguished for simplicity and charm...
...overseas. All of the military equipment will to turned over to the Morgan Memorial Institute, a large social service institution in Boston, which has offered to make over the uniforms into ordinary wearing apparel. The text-books will be placed in the Phillips Brooks House Loan Library, while the fiction works and magazines will be sent abroad to our soldiers and sailors...
...text-books received will be placed as usual in the Text Book Loan Library of the Phillips Brooks House Association, where they will be rented to students for the nominal sum of ten cents a year. The magazines and fiction will be sent at once to members of our military and naval forces overseas, while the clothing contributions will be distributed among various organized charities in Boston and Cambridge...