Word: dicken
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stories are neither very interesting nor very well very written. The editors as well as the authors are to blame for such mistakes as "Charles Dicken's reputation," "a vastly higher strata," the wrong use of "formula" on page 26, and the sudden change of a character's name from Josh to Amos on page 29. Even if the material handed in afforded no fiction with the snap we are accustomed to expect in Advocate stories, care should be taken to avoid such examples of slovenliness...
...subjects of Professor Copeland's first three readings to be given in the Union, have been announced as follows: next Wednesday, "Scenes from Shakespeare and a Modern Short Story"; February 7, "Dicken's Centenary: A Brief Address and Reading from the Novels"; February 14, "A Lay Sermon on Studies versus 'Interests and Activities...