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...remaining stories are simpler and more sincere. Despite rather cruder workmanship, Mr. Blaine produces an effective climax with a very timely setting. "The Story of Old Panama" is highly colored, remote, and romantic...
...naturally to Mr. Mariett's story of undergraduate life which bears that virtue for its title--a happy, humorous, altogether real story of a grind and the way he got over it--the simplest, truest story of college life in the reviewer's memory. The other stories are cruder in execution, though less sincere in purpose, be their background the gold fields of the Yukon as depicted by Mr. Hoffman; the civilized though somewhat vague habitations of an Irene, serially being educated by Mr. Moderwell; or the dusky hillside of a pair of married lovers left in a state...
...wide for the most casual reader to overlook. Here in the north we have reached the stage of devotion to the aesthetic, so well illustrated by the Century and Harpers'. Sketches and stories whose aim is some artistic form and merit have for the most part replaced the cruder, if perhaps more thoughtful, essays of a generation ago. In the place of interminable epics and other tedius poems descriptive and hortatory, we have a setting, mercifully a narrow one, of verses expressing the mystic yearnings and sorrows to which the tragic undergraduate heart is prone, about a profusion of gems...
...regular seniors. Members of the graduating classes of the Law and Medical Schools and candidates for higher degrees will be allowed six-yard and three Memorial tickets on payment of $3.00. Past members of the class not now in college must apply for tickets in person or by written cruder on or before June 13. Money in all cases must be paid on receipt of tickets, and applications must be made in person or by written order at times above mentioned. Tickets not sold at these times will be sold by the committee to members of the senior class...