Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Three pieces of fiction are offered: "The Practicality of Joshua Wilkes," by Bruce Carpenter, a really constructive story with a clear outlining of the characters; "The Second Hungarian Rhapsody," by Douglas C. Wendell, well written but thin in plot; and "A Fable of Death," in which L. K. Garrison '19 attempts a form full of pit-falls, into most of which he stumbles. The Advocate used to do better in fiction. W. A. Norris '18 and Robert Cutler '16 contribute the verse. Mr. Norris's two sonnets have some fine sonorous phrases, in the making of which he is sometimes...
...single piece of fiction, Mr. Gazzam's "Tall Golden Moon" is sadly deficient in structure, and is indigestible as a story. It starts out with an apparent purpose, only to wind up nowhere in particular, without attaining that purpose or any other worth mentioning...
...comes in fun and stays at the lady's feet in earnest, turns out to be the butler's master. The complications arise over this visit to the gentleman's kitchen. Ultimately the fiance proves to be a bounder the butler is turned out and the novelist turns from fiction to romance and the butler's master...
Professor Pickering, of the Harvard Observatory, an expert and renowned man of science, denounces the "daylight saving" trick with the clock as a foolish and useless fiction. His opinion will have great weight and will carry conviction to the many who have hitherto regarded the scheme as a more or less successful plan to fool Mother Nature and her children at the same time...
...force. The present Garrison in "The Greater Union" handles a subject a little beyond his reach, but his diction is not that kind which gets into trouble in the famed course of English A. Myron Zobel '19 in "Richelieu, Vainquer de Dames" contributes the best approach to fiction in this number. It is rather good fun to see a small thread of history developed into as entertaining a romance as this is. The section of Richelieu's own record which is within this story has expressed the spirit of the Duke as we imagine him so well, that we wonder...