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Among the stories one of the most noticeable is Eugene Warner's "The Blessed Cynic," though it is not noticeable on account of its merit. It is not at all above the author's former work. a severe enough criticism in itself. The College Kodaks are not very good, the first is poor, the second is fair, the fifth is pointless, while the last is neither funny nor pleasing. A redeeming feature of the number is "The Picture That Was Turned Towards The Wall." It is a good story and is well told. "Berenice" is a peculiar story...
...sketches. The exception referred to comes first, and is ready not bad. The second is a fair bit of description but is destinctly not a College Kodak. After reading the third over three times, we continue to wonder why it was printed. The fourth is the work of a cynic and the fifth seems very far fetched...
There are two ways of looking at the world: one is that of the cynic and pessimist who maintains that the foundation of things is bad and that all so-called right and beauty is only a thin veil over it; the other view sees that God's judgment on his world is the right one and that the creation is surely advancing to perfection...
...Cynics were a branch of the Stoics as shown by the fact that Epictetus, the great Cynic leader, was sometimes called a Cynic, sometimes a Stoic...
...might we, ridiculing all things like the great cynic, despising all things that are of this world like the sublime Futze, live delicious lives amid imperishable laughter at those follies and absurdities of Puck, Life, Punch, the Faculty and the Lampoon that alone make life worth enduring...