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...graduate, cultivated and cynical, the well-springs of whose enthusiasm are not, however, entirely dried up, returning to his Texas home after an absence of four years-secondly, a Texas girl, plump and pretty, with a natural antipathy to books and other instruments of cultivation, and a predilection for slang and amorous raillery (a girl whose type is familiar to many Harvard men) -and lastly, "a short, thickset young man with the countenance of a brakeman," of muckers, muckerish. Of these delineations, the first is the best, the second having certain touches of vulgarity which are not pleasing. Regarded...
...meritorious articles are the two stories, "A Mutual Fraud" and "After Twenty Years." The former is a clever tale of the trouble-beset course of true love, the love of one Alphonse for his Henrietta. The raconteur is a charming little blackeyed French woman with a penchant for English slang and flirting-and the result is a delicate piquancy and delightful vivaciousness of style which is seldom characteristic of Advocate stories. There are one or two slight errors in the use of words, but the plot is original, and the story, on the whole, is very creditable to its author...
...Marsh in translating a portion of the "Wasps" of Aristophanes is very courageous in his attempts to turn Greek slang of the fifth century B. C. into the modern language of the street. The translator gives us a spicy bit of reading, but it is a question whether he has not gone too far in his desire to be true to his author. We are inclined to think that there is a hint of an anachronism here, but, however that may be, we have no difficulty in understanding Aristophanes through the medium of such a translation...
...prominent periodical published recently a sarcastic criticism of the present prevalence of what is called Harvard slang. If we were for a moment to analyze the character of Harvard conversation we would find that slang, if we may so term it, has become a constant quantity in all that we say. Professors "cut" and students "crib." We elect "soft" or "stiff" courses. We get a "whooper" or "plucked" in consequence. We "grind up for the semis" and by means of "guff" and "gall" we "skin through." This really is entertaining but hardly elevating. But where shall we stop? Shall...
...adopt their customs and their language. The transition from the refined conversation of home life or the puerilities of school life is strangely sudden; they are dropped or intensified almost immediately - and because this transition is so sudden we are led to ask seriously whether the use of Harvard slang is merely an affectation or an unconscious habit. Members of the freshman class may always be relied upon to betray their collegiate standing by an inordinate use of purely Harvard expletives. This would seem to argue affectation. But again the post-graduate will make use of the same terms with...