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...short stories in the number are too ambitious in going beyond the real field of undergraduate fiction, which is undergraduate fiction, which is undergraduate life. The first story in the present number, "Dalton's Awakening," deals with emotions and situations utterly beyond the scope of the author. No amount of "realistic" phrasing can cover the gaping breaks in the plot. The greatest philosophers and moralists have wrangled over the problem upon which this story is based, and the solution given here besides being inadequate, is morbid. The effect left by the story is one of mawkish sentiment...
...pool for the use of students, while Yale, Princeton, West Point, Pennsylvania and many other colleges are well provided for in this respect, is a state of affairs which is much to be regretted and, I think, to be remedied as soon as possible. Now that the opportunity is present, therefore, why not kill two birds with one stone, by giving the students a much-desired privilege, and by furnishing the Union with a means of drawing the students to it which would be both new and attractive...
...seems to me that the present situation offers peculiar advantages in many respects, which to say the least, should not be neglected...
...been announced that a fund large enough to establish a School of Forestry at Yale has been made. Neither the size of the fund nor the names of the donors will be given out at present...
...parlor of Phillips Brooks House will be open on Friday afternoons from four to six during the rest of the winter. Mrs. Eliot, Mrs. Pickering, Mrs. Shaler, and a few other ladies, together with some of the teachers in the different departments, will be present each week, and will be glad to welcome there, in a quite informal way, any members of the University...