Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...general course of training which the crews of both Yale and Harvard undergo before the final struggle on the Thames, but also general features of the life at New London for both crews and spectators, the routine at the quarters, the gaieties at the hotels. One point which the author specially dwells on is the drawback which the crews, and especially the losing crew, have to experience in the race from the surface-suction of the steamers which are following in their wake. He comes to the conclusion that the Conneticut Congressmen should see that a law should be passed...
...brightest bit in the number - for its author is mindful of the old adage, that "brevity is the soul of wit" - is the first of the College Kodaks. It is a clever parody on the style of criticism which permeates the English department in general and which seems to be the particular hobby of English B and English 12 instructors in particular. In view of the character of the parody, one almost feels tempted to dub its author a "tonsorial artist." Although this first of the Kodaks out-ranks the rest, the second and third are worthy of notice...
...Battle with Prejudice" is one of the best pieces of prose in the number, although it is below the usual standard of its author's work. As a character-sketch it is fairly vivid, although lacking a certain clearness of portraiture which is almost always a characteristic of its author's work in this line...
...author of "Mixed Doubles" evidently has a curious idea of the cerebral ruminations of the average Duluth man, for that an inhabitant of that "Zenith City of the Unsalted Seas" - as he tersely designates Duluth - should take an expelled Yale junior for the Republican candidate for Governor of the State, and a Colonel at that certainly reflects small credit on the people of that city. The comedy of errors which ensues is amusing but the extreme incongruousness of the plot rather vitiates the effect of the whole...
...editorials deal with the questions of A Western Overseer, the new gymnastic classes, the running up North Avenue in scant attire, and an open spring meeting (in the latter for which the author waxes humorous in his references to medals...