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...flare in such a fashion that the walls are in danger of being considerably blackened. We understand that the Board of Directors are making efforts to remedy this trouble and we trust that they will be able to do so, and that in short time, for it is a serious discomfort to members of the hall...
...articles in this number are "George William Curtis and Civil Service Reform" by Sherman S. Rogers, and "Penelope's English Experiences" by Kate Douglas Wiggin. The only poetry of the number "To a Wild Rose Found in October" is a pretty little song with just a touch of the serious...
...play is certainly worth seeing, however. It is a serious attempt to advance the knowledge of French language and literature and as such is thoroughly commendable...
...same tendency predominates in the verse of the Harvard Advocate; prose articles are of a less serious character. Both papers, however, too often permit the overcrowding of large ideas to produce a strained effect, or obscure the clear sense of the thought. Sometimes the intense degenerates into the absurd, and the bold epithet into mere affection; this is of course, the chief danger in all college papers that aim at marked originality, and yet in these two papers is found some of the best, and nearly all of the strongest poetry written by college students...
...cannot seriously agree with the writer when he refers to "the distorted conception of life, the false standard of individual and college distinction and the evident retarding of young men in arriving at serious and worthy ideals, all of which have been involved in the increasing "glorification of college athletics." If, as is very likely, there is a distorted conception of life among college men, it hardly seems due to the glorification of athletics. It is due to the immaturity and inexperience of the average student; but whether that immaturity itself is at all due to the glorification of athletics...