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...Coward, S D, College...
...stories, "The Coward," by E. B. Sheldon '08, seems to the reviewer the most successful. The story of a reformed "sport" who becomes a clergyman, and ultimately, through fear of his inability to resist the attractions of the world, gives up everything, even love, to enter a religious order, is not by any means easy to handle, and the avoidance of sentimentality on the one hand and melodrama on the other deserves the highest praise. The dialogue, also, is handled with admirable directness and naturalness, and the characterization of the principal figures is excellent. Something of the same admirable restraint...
...weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is composed of the strong men who take the trouble to do the work of government; and if you are too timid or too fastidious or too careless to do your part in this work, then you forfeit your right to be considered one of the governing and you become one of the governed instead--one of the driven cattle of the political arena. I want you to feel that it is not merely your right to take...
McClure's--"The Coward," by Edward Cummings '83; "The Run of the Altamaha," by J. B. Stickney...
...riot and has tempered his ridiculous situation with a very appropriate touch of the sentimental side of boy human nature. "From the Front Platform" suffers somewhat from unnecessary length, but the story, which the old horse-car driver tells, is dramatic and abounds in well-drawn pictures. "Coward" is a railroad story with an exciting situation but the writer fails to make it very clear why the "coward" deserves to be called by that name. "A Reason for Secrecy" is a vague in its ending but it is a good bit of description. "Adelaide Maurice, 'Cure'," and "A Class Game...