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The most interesting piece of work in the last number of the Advocate is the editorial. It deals with the two duties which devolve upon every man of culture: first, to keep himself familiar with the events of the day; second, to be well-read in literature, past and present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 12/13/1901 | See Source »

The November number of the Monthly contains as its leading article a discussion by Dean Shaler of "The 'Bloody Monday' Question." The writer makes a strong plea for the discontinuance of the annual Sophomore-Freshman rush; the arguments he uses are forceful and are likely to be convincing to the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Monthly | 10/23/1901 | See Source »

The debate centred mainly on the question whether the Filipinos would ever become capable of self-government. All the speakers did a great deal of rebuttal in their opening speeches and there was no attempt at dodging the issue by either side. The opening speech of Bruce for the negative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATING TEAM CHOSEN. | 11/10/1900 | See Source »

In "The Misses Bentley's Telescope" the hero is engaged in preserving "a pleasing amatory equilibrism" at home, while developing a genuine love affair abroad. The device by which the author reaches his climaxes is of course farcial, but his climaxes are none the less climaxes, and the story moves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 10/6/1897 | See Source »

Fletcher Dobyns continued the speeches in the most forceful and the best received speech of the evening. He said: This is the most uninteresting debate I have ever attended. The gentlemen from New haven received from us a definite question. We at Harvard have understood that the question is, should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE WINS. | 3/27/1897 | See Source »

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