Word: flandrau
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...recent meeting of the editors of the Advocate the following officers for 1893-94 were elected. President, C. W. Shope, '93; Secretary, C. M. Flandrau, '95; Business Manager, 11. C. Quinby, '94. A. S. Pier, '95 and L. How, '95 were elected regular editors and Townsend Walsh, formerly a business editor was also elected a regular editor...
...Eddy is certainly not poetry. "Melancholy" by Eugene Warner is rather below this author's former work. The simile in this last, "like an Oriental steeped in oblivious drug, insensate lying" is not pleasing. "On the Progressive Motion of One's Best Foot" by C. M. Flandrau is the cleverest thing in the number. It is written in an entertaining style and consists of some rather cynical advice as to how to make a good impression in society...
...Melons," by C. M. Flandrau, is a clever character-sketch, full of local color, but with a deceptive title, for not fruit but the family and house of a western politician are the subject of the story...
...stories in the last Advocate, which made its appearance yesterday, "The Garden of Sleep," by C. M. Flandrau, is decidedly the best, and it is the best, too, in spite of the fact that it is the most pretentious. The story is of an invalid, - a young man, - who, with his friend and his mother, is spending the winter in a dahabeha on the Nile, and of his death there. The sleepy, sultry atmosphere of the scene is admirably caught, while the interest is well sustained throughout. The words too are well chosen and descriptive...
...Flandrau '95, has been elected an editor of the Advocate...