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...current Advocate has been given: me in proof-sheets which must be lacking their final revision. With all due allowance for this, however, there is throughout the number a somewhat poignant slovenliness of style: not one of the prose writers seems able to compose a long sentence that shall be at once logically constructed, well-balanced, and graceful. But the paper is written in tolerable journalese,--and perhaps one expects too much from the promising combination of aspiring youth and a, presumably, inspiring Department of English...
...prove. But that many men who might finish in three years by a proper arrangement of their courses prefer instead to take four years, and that the chance of taking part in athletics for an extra year is the principal inducement to such men, is not so easy of proof. We venture to assert, however, that the cases in which, for the sake of athletics, men take an unnecessary year to get their degrees are more numerous than the case in which men are lost to the teams by leaving College ahead of the majority of their class...
...evidenced by the reputation of the preachers who come to conduct them. No church accessible to the students maintains higher standards of worship and instruction. The change has been made in the interest of the students, and those who are in charge of the services will look for proof of the wisdom of the change in an increased attendance...
...succeeded, and in almost all other European countries except France. This is the greatest argument in its favor. The income tax did not bring about the French Revolution. The French deputies, who are nearest the will of the people, voted for it at their last session. This seems abundant proof that the French people want...
...clubs were not always as careful as they might have been in their observance of the proprieties, and in consequence the Western graduates were forced to ask that no more visits be allowed. That conditions have greatly changed since that time, the success of the 1907 trip is sufficient proof, and it is for those who go this year to strengthen the good impression which has been created...