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...fact that an unusually large part of the number has been written by the Senior members of the Board. Mr. Price gives us a story, "Little Brother"; Mr. Henshaw, a burlesque, "The Chambers Maid"; Mr. Mclntyre, a story, "Her House out of Order"; Mr. Stoddard, an essay, "The American Snob"; and Mr. Walsh, a poem, "The Explorer." "Dead Man's Pine," a story, by Mr. K. B. Townsend '08, "Sea-Vision," a poem, by Mr. J. H. Wheelock 08, and two editorials complete the list...
...Henshaw's burlesque of the modern romantic novel is disappointing. The strokes are too broad, and the humor, at best, problematical. Mr. Stoddard's analysis of the American snob, on the other hand, is distinctly clever, and leaves one wishing that the author had written more at length of his different classes of snobs...
...opportunity for one, and is what you make it. It can deliver a man at the end, blankly unaware of the high things among which he has been moving, a vacant idler, or a stupid book-man, a heavy-witted athlete, a timid nonentity, or a snob already stifled in the stale air of exclusiveness; or it can send him out free of the great brotherhood of educated men, stirred with the challenge of life, the life, of ideas and no less the life...
Stevenson was not an Oxford man, but an idle student at a poor University of Edinburgh, where he occupied himself chiefly in learning to write. He was never the least bit of a snob but was, on the other hand, a good deal of a bohemian. All lovers of Bohemia would enjoy his "Providence and the Guitar...
...does not lack interest. "Topics of the Day" is a new departure in the Advocate. It is not to appear in every number; but it is to be devoted to live subjects of discussion among the students. The department in the present number is filled by a soliloquy about snobs as seen from a snob's point of view. There is a deep truth in what is said, and we do not remember ever having seen it expressed so forcibly as it is here...