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...Weeks' store called "The Arrow-head" proceeds clearly and cleverly until the denouement is reached; then the mode of treatment is suddenly changed, and the final situation is suggested so dimly that the result is an anti-climax. The some difficulty appears in a less degree in "The Walloping Window Blind". In characterization, narrative skill, and vivacity of style, it is distinctly the best tale in this number of the Advocate; but at the very end Mr. LaFarge, evidently somewhat vitiated by the literary tendencies of the day, wrongly believes that he gains in impressiveness by obscurely hinting...
...gift for fanciful invention, is well-high lost in the atmosphere. The sentiment of the verses headed "Amnesia" is poetic and apparently sincere, the technical frame-work is successful; but here the impression is impaired by a too highly colored wordiness. The setting is best managed in "The Walloping Window Blind", with admirable restraint and with something of Conrad's feeling for the terror of remote seas. One of the least objectionable modes of getting atmosphere would be the resort to dialect, if it were not now so much over-worked. The trick justifies itself, however, in the four pieces...
...three out of fifty birds. Nathaniel Hathaway '22 was second handicap winner with thirty-four, while R. D. Hale '23 won a leg on the Season Scratch Trophy with a score of forty-one. The Gun Club's two trophies will be on exhibition in Leavitt and Peirce's window during the remainder of the week...
...were still being improved without reference to acts of the Massachusetts legislature, and that there, in the very citadel of strongfortism, we might blushingly exert our feeble strentht. A sing intimated that the door was locked for the day. We were interrupted in the act of opening a window by the watchman placed there they Comptroller to prevent the use by the little fellows for he building designed for them. This wothy opined that the Comptroller desired his holiday as much as we. It would thus appear to be the conviction of the anthorities that freshmen, unless tirelessly supervised, will...
...Sophomore contest would not have any bearing now on the outcome of the series, this game has been definitely cancelled. Each member of the winning Junior team will receive one of the silver cups which have been on exhibition during the past two weeks in Wright and Ditson's window. The twelve Juniors who will receive trophies are as follows: J. R. Dallinger, N. A. Hall, H. W. Hardy, W. C. Jackson, P. B. Lord, C. L. Nunneker, T. C. Pratt, Jesse Robinson. G. A. Tierney, E. D. Weatherhead, W. E. Westman, and E. H. Wobber...