Word: localitis
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...series of "Lampy's Menagerie" is a very pleasing innovation. Although short, it is one of the best executed pieces in the number on account of the humor and scientific language. Another timely and interesting part is the "All Cambridge Team for 1899," which contains the usual local hits but with unusual variations. The short jokes in prose and verse are very good, but the drawings, excepting the centre page, are not above the ordinary. The series of drawings on "Rowing Experiences, etc." is without point, and the drawing on the last page, although a local touch, has a joke...
...best pieces in the current number of the Lampoon are the bits of verse. Among the poetical squibs are several which are rich in both humor and local color...
There is, of course, the usual short funny story; but it is of general rather than local interest. The customary specimen lecture is "drool"; the one editorial contained in the number is a mere flow of adjectives and adverbs...
Frank Everett Heywood '82, of Worcester, died suddenly last Wednesday, at the age of forty. He was chairman of the Republican State Committee for two years, and was also prominent in local politics. He was prominent in athletics, and was the first secretary of the Worcester Athletic Club. He was a member of the Tatnuck Country Club, the Quinsigamond Boat Club, and other New York and Boston clubs...
Richness of local color characterizes the stories in the current number of the Advocate, which differs from the typical number in that it omits the usual long "leading" piece. It contains, instead, expanded daily themes, which, though they possess no literary merit, are interesting to undergraduates. In a story called "Pierre's Mountains," Richard Edwards '00 sketches the character of a Swiss boy and narrates his struggles to overcome love for home in order to follow attractions in Paris. Throughout the narrative, the writer has skillfully blended description and exposition. "At the Edge of the Moor," by Apthorp Gould Fuller...