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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Advocate, which differs from the typical number in that it omits the usual long "leading" piece. It contains, instead, expanded daily themes, which, though they possess no literary merit, are interesting to undergraduates. In a story called "Pierre's Mountains," Richard Edwards '00 sketches the character of a Swiss boy and narrates his struggles to overcome love for home in order to follow attractions in Paris. Throughout the narrative, the writer has skillfully blended description and exposition. "At the Edge of the Moor," by Apthorp Gould Fuller '00, exemplifies the evil of disingenuousness of expression. With the evident purpose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate | 10/21/1899 | See Source »

...fact is, then, that the Association must run the business, or its members will have to do without papers. It is necessary to hire servants to sell the papers. Boys are competent for such office, but if a man wishes to work for a boy's wages he can doubtless find employment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/14/1898 | See Source »

...Hugh Lacy, A. H. Howard '98; Roland Lacy, C. L. Bouve '99; Askew, G. R. Stobbs '99; Lord Mayor, H. M. Huxley '99; Scott, P. B. Wells '98; Hammon, F. Tomlinson '99; Warner, B. P. Merrick '99; Dodger, M. G. Beaman '99; Ballad-Monger, H. H. Richards '98; Boy, W. H. Porter '98; Servant of Hammon, K. L. Mark '98; First Prentice, W. L. Shaw 1900; Rose, W. C. Arensberg 1900; Sybil, J. E. McCloskey 1900; Margery, F. B. Granger 1900; Jane, J. S. Barstow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE D. U. PLAY. | 3/28/1898 | See Source »

...Sunday at his funeral hundreds of people of all stations and means stood on the lawn before the overcrowded house, and attested that this mere boy of twenty-eight years had gone far in his life-work, his crusade, and had done it well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. L. Black '91. | 3/24/1898 | See Source »

...some of the other great schools. He indicates the points of difference between the English public schools and the American preparatory schools, and points out clearly those characteristics of the English public schools that have impressed their individuality upon the leaders in English literary and public life. "School-boy Life in England" is handsomely illustrated. This is the second book that Mr. Corbin has published since his graduation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "School-Boy Life in England." | 12/13/1897 | See Source »

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