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Amid so many good things in the October number of the Century it is difficult to choose articles of special value to Harvard men. Of particular interest to the majority of college students will be Edmund Gosse's critical essay on Rudyard Kipling, which is in the nature of a review of his literary work in prose and verse. Mr. Gosse has done his task in a careful, judicial spirit, and the result is an admirable estimate of an author with whom almost every one has become familiar in the past two years. A portrait of Mr. Kipling...
...Association of the Law School. The success which has attended the work of this association may well suggest the advisability of the organization of similar associations among the alumni of each of our graduate schools, and the adoption of the same methods which have proved so effective in this particular case...
...Brown, in "Two Stormy Evenings," has evidently discarded the suggestions which an editorial in the first Advocate of the year made,- in effect that everyday life and familiar college incidents are most worthy of the attention of the writer for college papers. For in this particular story, there is plenty of the tragic and blood-curdling, plenty of scenes far removed from ordinary human life. The mingling of disappointed love, hate, thirst for revenge, compacts with Satan, and murder in one crucible is so seldom seen in college stories, that it would be hard to criticize this tale from...
...Harold N. Fowler has the graduate contribution this time.- a paper entitled "Recollections of a German Gymnasium." The particular "gymnasium" to which Mr. Fowler refers is the Kreuzschule of the Georg Platz in Dresden, and in the course of his article he gives a thorough description of the methods employed in German schools, the hours of study, the studies themselves, peculiarities of teaching and gradation of pupils. The paper is on the whole a clear and concise exposition of the "German way of doing things," a system which has so many advantages over the American in certain respects, that...
...article is one on "Scientific Tennis Strokes" by J. Parmly Paret, the first of a series of papers on the subject. In it Mr. Paret dwells at some length on the most effective ways of serving, both from a scientific and a physical standpoint and cites, as examples of particular style, Howard Taylor, Deane Miller, Billings, and Beach, pictures of all of whom in the act of serving are given...