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...easily influenced that it was almost impossible for him not to follow the lead of the majority. Whatever may have been his character as a man, certainly as a poet he gave with every advancing year added proof of strength, maturity and nobility. His genius was rather receptive than creative; the seeds that were planted in his mind bore their best fruit latest in life...
...CRIMSON has published the opinions of all sides on this much disputed question. The idea of having two teams representing the university is a novel one, but rather far fetched from our standpoint. It may however be interesting to keep in mind the various plans suggested to remedy the evils of the present systems, and to compare them with the one finally adopted. This will doubtless be a curious compromise between them...
...Pilgrims' Church in Plymouth" and "Kentucky's Pioneer Town" are, unless one has a special interest in history, rather more instructive than entertaining...
...poetry is not more than fair, and the chapters in "John Ballantyne, American" are hardly more. "The Girls of Dangar" and "Nesbit" are rather good short stories, but "A Notch in a Principality" is easily the best thing in the story line. It is written by Frank Bailey Millard, and will add still more to this young author's reputation...
...rather rambling article on the conditions which surround a Florentine artist, a careful paper with which Frederic Crowninshield concludes his "Impressions of a Decorator in Rome," another instalment of Mrs. Burnett's "The one I knew best of all," two pieces of fiction "To her" and "How the Battle was Lost," and finally a pair of sonnets, make up the rest of this not very brilliant number...