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...thus avoid the disagreeable misunderstandings which have occurred in other years. Class Day is an occasion for Harvard men and their friends and the promise--which every purchaser of tickets is required to sign--not to sell or give tickets as fees should be observed in the same literal manner in which it is intended. Although we believe that most of the tickets which have been found in the hands of speculators and other undesirable persons in former years went astray through carelessness, fair warning to undergraduates and the unusual precautions of the Class Day Committee should prevent a recurrence...
...fairer proportion in the subjects is evidently necessary. The CRIMSON would suggest, if it is not too late for the coming year, a division of the department into several half-courses, each of which shall treat a special topic in a well-rounded and well-balanced, though perforce superficial, manner. There may, of course, be better and more comprehensive ways of re-organizing this department; but re-organization of some sort seems necessary to give Fine Arts the place it deserves...
...characterized throughout by vitality and truth. "The Bravery of Terrence" by Mr. John L. Warren is the best told of the stories. It relates an amusing point of view, which is unusually well realized and sustained. It is distinguished from the other two stories by greater maturity of manner and evenness of development. These other stories are at once unconvincing in content and ragged in style. A "Double Campaign" contains a sufficiently humorous idea, which, however, the author has not taken time or has not the skill to develop; and it is written in an ejaculatory style, tiresome event...
...into the hands of some great poet. Although criticism may reveal a hundred joints in the construction of the Iliad, it rarely can disclose faults in the style; for there is nothing more striking about the poem than the uniformity of splendor in which it was written. In some manner a great Homeric style was built up which could be reproduced by the ordinary minstrel without effort, provided he had been trained along that line. In the works of these ancient minstrels we are brought face to face with something more august than mere individual genius...
Among the poems, the most ambitious is J. H. wheelock's "Paris and Oenone," a remarkably successful attempt to treat a Greek theme in a Greek manner, even to the Introduction of a chorus. The verse is somewhat uneven, but the poem as a whole is well sustained and the handling of the chorus and the difficult stichomythia is unusually good. As a minor point it may be noted that the characterization of Paris as the "husband of Helen of Troy, mortally wounded by the arrow of Philoctetes" and of Oenone as "a demi-goddess--who can heal mortal wounds...