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Professor Pickering, of the Harvard Observatory, an expert and renowned man of science, denounces the "daylight saving" trick with the clock as a foolish and useless fiction. His opinion will have great weight and will carry conviction to the many who have hitherto regarded the scheme as a more or less successful plan to fool Mother Nature and her children at the same time...
...force. The present Garrison in "The Greater Union" handles a subject a little beyond his reach, but his diction is not that kind which gets into trouble in the famed course of English A. Myron Zobel '19 in "Richelieu, Vainquer de Dames" contributes the best approach to fiction in this number. It is rather good fun to see a small thread of history developed into as entertaining a romance as this is. The section of Richelieu's own record which is within this story has expressed the spirit of the Duke as we imagine him so well, that we wonder...
There is only one piece of fiction in the number, "Esther's Children." Mr. Behrman has written truthfully, simply, and sympathetically of a phase of life which he evidently knows at first hand, and the result is a story that is far more impressive than anything that usually appears in a college paper. It is an unusual and a notable contribution...
...smoker will mark the beginning of two competitions, a business competition, open only to Freshmen, and a literary competition. The literary competition will consist in writing contributions for the Advocate. Fiction, articles, or verse will be equally acceptable. To become eligible for election a candidate must have had published at least six contributions...
...smoker will mark the beginning of two competitions, a business competition, open only to Freshmen, and a literary competition. The literary competition will consist in writing contributions for the Advocate. Fiction, articles or verse will be equally acceptable. To become eligible for election a candidate must have published at least six contributions...