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...annual spring clothing and book collection taken by the Social Service Committee of the Phillips Brooks House Association will begin next Monday. Clothing of all sorts, magazines, books of fiction, and college text books are desired. The clothing will be sent to Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, the Cambridge Associated Charities, the Seamen's Friends Society, the Toombs School, New York, and other deserving institutions; the miscellaneous reading mater will be sent to hospitals in Boston and Cambridge, to lighthouses, sailor's reading rooms, etc., and the text books will be added to the text-book loan library in Phillips Brooks House...
...reveal what is special to the writer. Those of Arminius show culture and intelligence, but on the question of the author's talent are not illuminating. About the verse I shall not attempt to write, being poorly equipped. "Their Salad Days" seemed to me more typical of college fiction generally than of the Monthly in particular. The editorial is good in plan, but conscious and too literary. It suggests in possibility a little talk about spring that should be simpler, more honest, and clothed in the language and symbols of today,--this editorial, let us say, ten years after
...under the impression that the editors of the Advocate, as well as those of other college papers, make them up, and have difficulty "filling" at the last moment. This is a fatal habit. Why not keep on hand a quantity of good fiction and verse? Much good stuff is to be had from English 12 and English...
...Arkush's story, "The Greater Hypocrite," brings together one of the most unpleasant groups of (let us hope) fictitious undergraduates that can be met with in College fiction. As a sketch of types of character, it suffers from the mistake common in stories in the College magazines--that of attempting to describe in half a dozen pages people whom a skilled novelist would require a volume to make real. There are appreciative reviews of Professor C. E. Norton's new book on Longfellow and Mr. Underwood's volume on gardens. The editorial on the lectures in the Union is well...
Atlantic--"Longfellow, 1807-1907," by T. B. Aldrich h.'96; "The Melodrama," by H. J. Smith p.'04; "Modern Spanish Fiction," by W. W. Comfort...