Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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Two editorials, one on the coming performance of Iphigenie, and one on the athletic ticket scheme, and a book review, close the number, which, as a whole, is one of the best, if not the best, which have appeared this year.
"The Usurper of the Range," by W. Jones '00, is without doubt the best piece of fiction in the number. Its subject is fresh and unhackneyed, and treated with a firmness and sureness of touch which shows the writer's perfect knowledge of the western life and incidents he depicts...
The following article by G.H. Montague '01, brings us back from the prairies to our own haunts--Undergraduate reading, or rather, the lack of it, is his subject. It is a vigorous reply to the accusation that the Harvard undergraduate of today is less well-read than his predecessor of...
The present writer is too unfamiliar with the dialect of the English countries to attempt to criticise that of "A Child of All Fools," by Rowland Thomas. The plot is slight, the suggestion vague, but the characters as individuals are well drawn and the dialogue is well worked out.
J.P. White's article on the "French Drama of Today," is a gallant attempt to treat in a very limited space a subject of almost unlimited proportions. The article bears too much resemblance to a catalogue of plays. The only piece of verse in the number, the "Ripple-Song," by...