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On the same subject the News says: "It is with great pleasure that we learn of the revocation of the Harvard faculty's decrees forbidding foot-ball. This course was taken, it seems, in response to a popular feeling among the students and professors, that the game as played under...
At present in our college papers there is a strong tendency toward story-writing. The tendency is a good one; for a well told story is interesting, while a poor one is, perhaps, not as bad as some other poor things. Yet too many of the college stories have the...
Then, in order to do something striking, to scare people, we try to bring in the fantastic and horrible. But unluckily we have never seen what is fantastic or horrible. At most we have only read about such things; as a full realization of the matter is yet beyond us...
It would be well for all to remember that most of the successful story tellers have written clearly and feelingly of the everyday life about them, - a life which they knew thoroughly. The number of men who have succeeded in other lines of narration can be counted upon the fingers...
Yet there is around us, and in all our lives stuff enough to make good stories. And if there is not this material, we can never do much with what we borrow. A fellow need not necessarily confine himself to Adirondack deer hunts and the like; but almost any ordinary...