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...would be a great boon if a Pastoral History of the Church could be written. It would exhibit the Church in its most attractive and beneficent light, engaged in doing good instead of being a scene of conflict. Chaucer's description of the Parish Priest, supposed to be modelled on Wycliffe, may be taken as a kind of type of the Pastor...
...first number of the Advocate to be issued by the 1901 board gives promise of a successful year. In some way the editors have obtained stories from new men, and the result is decidedly refreshing. New writers are the greatest boon a paper such as the Advocate can receive, and it is to be hoped that the coming year will produce more originality of plot and novelty of treatment than have been shown of late years...
...number of the Advocate is an Irish dialect story, "A Village Paladin," by J. A. Graydon '01. After briefly picturing the town of Rosslea, on Fair Day, the writer describes the shop of Mickey Doonan, the village blacksmith, and then skilfully introduces upon the scene some of Mickey's "boon companions." In the dialogue which follows there is both vigor and movement, and wherever the writer used exposition or description there is always color and atmosphere. Towards the close of the story there are numerous little touches of humor, of which only a very few sound strained. "There's Just...
...after all, is a large supply of ill-paid, unskilled work necessarily a boon to poor students. To me it seems that a man with enough ability to get into Harvard should be able to get work for which he will be paid more than twenty cents an hour...
...edition of Dante's complete works in a single volume, edited by the Rev. Dr. Moore, is soon to be issued from the Clarendon press, and will unquestionably afford a much better text of the prose works than any hitherto published. It will be a great boon to the student...