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...more than fifty years ago that Philip Nolan shouted: "Damn the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!" Today, as in the days of the Civil War, this sort of blasphemy is scarce, yet a new feeling has come into vogue, quite as dangerous as that of the "man without a country," and far more widespread...
...this issue of the Monthly is unqualifiedly good writing. It is well diversified, too; a pictorial essay, three stories of character, a short sketch and an intensely vivid study of a young artist's mind. There are no stories of the washed-out O. Henry variety, of the sort that pads out the pages of the usual undergraduate magazine. The verse in this issue is, on the whole, far below the usual Monthly standard, conventional and uninspired...
...essay, Mr. Hillyer's "Caucassin and Nicolette," is a charmingly pictorial evocation of vague literary atmosphere, a mood induced by the tale rather than an essay dealing with it. The style suffers a little in places from the sort of poeticizing that marred Oscar Wilde's "Poems in Prose," but is one the whole graphic and full of sensuous charm. The first paragraph might have been written by Turgenieff, so vivid is it and so full of the very scent and rustle of a landscape...
...hence deprived of all organized sports. Some form of intercollegiate contests ought therefore to be devised, something which would afford the exercise so many need, and yet would not demand unqualified attention on the part of the participants. We have had this sort of athletics before in the Leiter Cup series. If they could be organized now on a larger scale, they would fill a very big gap in University activities...
...many advantages with which we are still left. The Government has not been ungenerous. In a time of scarcity it has left us our officers and held out the hope of equipment. And the University and the alumni have been very generous in encouragement and aid of every sort. They are determined that so far as in them lies, this camp here shall be in every respect as efficient and valuable and successful as the camps regularly organized by the Government...