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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this adverse vote are three: first, that the attempt this year proved a failure; in the second place, that there is no point to the cheering except in the Yale games, and without practice in the smaller games, which is impracticable; it is unsuccessful; and finally, it is very difficult to secure a concentrated cheering section in the Arena...
...allow Freshmen to play on the University team in the spring matches has been submitted to the Athletic Committee, and will be acted upon tomorrow evening. Formerly Freshmen have been allowed neither membership on the University, nor to form a team of their own, and it has therefore been difficult to determine who among them were worthy of representing the University in the intercollegiates in September of their Sophomore year...
...alone is done with any particular skill. The style in description and conversation is light and the characters are cleverly sketched, although the close is distinctly weak. W. D. Crane in "Bully" and L. Wood, Jr., in "Short, Sweet and Bitter" do not succeed so well in following the difficult master. Both attempt what few people can accomplish skilfully in clearing up their mysteries by means of a letter, and both lack vigor and compactness. Whatever the merits and demerits of the stories, however, the Advocate has been unwise in selecting three so similar. Had O. Henry himself written them...
...action of "The Fourflushers" halts in a few places but is on the whole swift and amusing. Its satire upon New York counterfeit society life is witty, and the dialogue is full of bright epigrams. The difficult lines were skillfully read, and all the parts well taken. Miss Ahrens and Miss Stickney gave plausibility to parts that might easily have seemed too absurd even for a farce. The author played the butler, and his acting was as comic as his play is clever...
...duty to prevent any continuation. But instead of having paganism to fight against, we must work against an objectionable form of syncretism and eclecticism. The taking of half-truths of Christianity with half-truths of non-Christian beliefs, makes a combination far more dangerous and far more difficult to remedy than paganism...