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...written an exquisite story of a midget. It is not a pleasant story, for pitiful stories are not pleasant stories. And the "Memoirs of a Midget" is very and sincerely pitiful. No one has written the life of Zip the "What Is It" to whom Barnum gave fame. Dickens gave a name, and the public gave the vital interest of its perpetual indecorum. But now that Zip is dead and the fellowship of freaks takes on the vestments of usual mourning the need of such a memoir becomes less remote. Zip should be perpetuated. For in a time of mental...
Professor Charles Townsend Copeland '82 of the Department of English will give a special reading for the Graduate School of Education tomorrow evening. After a brief address on "Dicken's Best Book", Professor Copeland will read selections from Dickens and Kipling. The meeting will be held in the Dining Room of the Union at 8.30. It is designed especially for students in the Graduate School of Education and their guests, who are thus accorded a privilege much coveted by University undergraduates and by the alumni of the University...
...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...
...thorough, and well entered into by the candidates. The men in training are: '87, Alvord, c., Keating, p., Haskell, p.; '88, Davidson, 1b., Judson, 2b., Stearns, c., 2b., Oldham, c., l. f., Phillips, s. s., p., McLennan, 3b.; '89, Turner, p., Storrs, l. f., Belcher, r. f., 2b., Dicken, c.; '90. W. C. Burns, c. f., Houghton, p., r. f., Pope, c., Ewing, 2b., Delabarre, 1b, r. f. With energetic work there is no reason why the Amherst nine should not develop good players by the beginning of the season...