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...leading interests, sport and war preparation, continue to wedge their way into the glossed pages of the Illustrated. The current number affords a photographic record of the latest Harvard disaster--the defeat of the Freshman team by Yale--but alongside such a record are pictures of the same Freshman team whipping the Tigers. These latter were taken by an enterprising staff photographer, who made the trip to New Jersey on the hunch that victory snapshots would be obtainable only there...
...scope per fortnight can be found to show the war-time activities of the University, but the allotment of pictures in the current number is a trifle unusual. The same photographer who went to Princeton also got up early enough to snap one of the R. O. T. C. companies passing through the Stadium gate on a rainy morning. His enterprise again gave a picture that even the wet weather couldn't quite spoil. Among the "newsy" pictures are those of the victorious Freshman cross-country team and the new Sophomore class officers...
...current Advocate is rich in fiction but relatively poor in verse and contains but two articles. The latter are in some respects the most interesting contributions to the number. They echo many a dispute about verslibre. Mr. LaFarge attacks, Mr. Jayne defends, the new form. Mr. Jayne's essay is very thoughtful but we can imagine becoming quite as absorbed in "Paradise Lost" as in "Christable." Mr. LaFarge is very worth reading on the other side, but has, at times, the rather irritating superiority of the classicist. The unsigned opening contribution to the number gives us three opinions...
...whole, the current issue suffers less than we might expect from the blighting influence of the war. It manages to uphold very creditably the literary traditions of the Advocate. ARTHUR K. McCOMB...
...following letter, appearing in the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin, from C. C. Lane '04, Major of the First Battalion, is printed concerning the influence which Captain Shannon had over the men in last summer's R. O. T. C.: Editor, HARVARD ALUMNI BULLETIN...