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...Telltale" is modelled after Addison's Spectator. Its object is explained in the first paper: "This paper is Entitled the Telltale or Criticisms of the Conversation & Behaviour of Scholars to promote right reasoning & good manner." Telltale is unknown. "I am so envelop'd with clouds & vizards that the most piercing eye cannot distinguish me from Stoughton's Hall." Unfortunately he does not follow his stated purpose of criticism entirely but describes in a number of pages curious dreams in which he meets a number of characters disputing of various subjects, and tells at great length of an meeting...
...Quick's main character, "Cow" Vandemark, is delightful, however; slow-thinking, accurate, plodding soul that he is. His early experiences on the canal, his naive behaviour in difficult circumstances, his conscientions adherence to his blundering theories make him a figure that contrasts pleasantly with the average man-in-the-novel of today. How the heroine, above-mentioned, who would have been much more at home in a Fitzgerald "flapper" story, could have had any use for him is beyond comprehension. Mr. Quick's casual characterization is also attractive. He gives his impressions after the manner of some of our better...
...from the President. One of the most noteworthy provisions is the regulation made concerning the power of removal of the Controller General, who will be the chief accounting officer under the Law system; the House has made the provision that this officer shall hold his position while in good behaviour, and may be removed by Congress without the approval of the President, but the Senate allows for the President's opinion. Although both House and Senate appear to be trying to keep this office out of polities, the Representatives seem the more determined in their efforts. At any rate...
...record shows in addition to the above, "Whoever shall be able to read, construe & parse ordinary Greek, as in the New Testament, Socrates or such like, and be skilled in making Latin verse and in the rules of Prosodia; Having withall good Testimony of his past blameless behaviour, shall be looked upon as qualified for Admission into Harvard College...
...interesting. R. L. West '14 has given us a good deal of inside information on the training of debating teams to what he calls the "Harvard Habit of Winning Debates." But he has uncovered what we might name the Institute's family skeleton, since, from the behaviour of its present members, we judge that they are ashamed of the fact that such questions as the relative merits of Napoleon and Cromwell were ever argued between its walls. The article on Princeton Customs, by Mr. Hunter of the Nassau Literary Magazine, is interesting enough to members of this staid old College...