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The editorials and the book reviews are readable and sane. Altogether, this number of the Monthly goes toward justifying its rather ambitious "Foreword"; perhaps future numbers will be less slender.
Mr. Carpenter's story, "The Nymph Chaser," is in a conventional style above that of the average undergraduate. Although perhaps a little long drawn out and in places a little lagging in interest, it is technically correct and very pleasant to read.
Old manuscripts tell us that in the Middle Ages students, when they had finished their studies, would congregate in open places to play games and indulge in healthful recreation. The roughness of the sports and the evident enjoyment of the participants were noted with surprise by the staid and sober...
And it was in the dump heap that they were put by the Egyptian reconstructors of the temple after a destruction of it subsequent to 600 B. C. The Egyptians of that period, regarding themselves as moderns of the moderns, and certainly the most up-to-date thing then existing...
Perhaps the "gentlemen higher up" find this a sufficient justification for the custom.