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...class crews and may be depended upon to make a good showing in the race. The Freshmen appear to be their most formidable opponents, for a short while ago they defeated both the Seniors and the Juniors in a mile brush. Their lack of experience, however, may prove a serious handicap to them. The consolation race will probably go to the first Newell Seniors as they are better together and have more life than any of their opponents...
...current number of the Advocate contains a large amount than usual or serious verse--the kind of verse which, because it calls for the application of greater powers than the usual poems of lighter verse, more often bears the stamp of maturity and permanence. The verse in the issue, "The River Wall" and "To the Evening Star," avoids the common fault of mistaking obscurity for suggestiveness, and is moreover, exceptional for its musical fluency, delicacy of thought and happiness in choice of rhyme. The editorials are timely and pointed, but beside these, the prose in the issue merits little praise...
...story free from serious defects is "The Aristocrat." As it stops when its logical end is reached, it has the unusual distinction of leaving something to the Willing imagination of the reader. "Nathaniel," though rather fantastically improbable, is interesting and clever. "Fog and Sunlight," "Old Humphry's Spook" and "Samuel" are all of the bad dream variety and are all of the bad dream variety and are inferior in treatment because their authors had nothing...
...which may be attacked our mainland, Porto Rico and the Panama Canal. It means too that we shall expose ourselves to all the nagging disputes, the friction and diplomatic entanglements which never fail to arise between neighboring states. All this, and the burden which it necessitates, is a very serious menace to the welfare of the United States...
...consider the practical difficulties and serious consequences of such a seizure. In what part of the country is the land to be seized? Who is to determine its value? It the interested party to determine its value? Suppose two European creditors wish the same land? In every case this land would be taken along the seacoast and must include a harbor for otherwise it would not be accessible. In this debate it has been, shown that the genera law of the affirmative is too broad to be statesman like; that it means an abandonment of a policy which we have...