Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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"The Defeat of Tammany," by William French Wilbour '96, is an interesting sketch of some features of political campaigning in New York during the past autumn. "'Soapy' Smith," by B. Wendell, Jr., and "The Hoboes' Congress," by L. M. Crosbie, are the two stories of the issue. Neither one has...
"The Mill of Time," by G. H. M., narrowly misses being a very successful story. It relates the disillusioning experience of a "cub" reporter on a great daily; and these experiences are racily told in an account crammed with newspaper incident. This account, however, is rather arbitrarily placed between two...
The rollicking humor of "An Elk Hunt in Wyoming," by Henry Lyman, is the most delightful trait of a very interesting narrative. The incident by itself is very funny; and the sly wit with which it is told makes it well-nigh irresistible.
Lack of vitality in the stories makes the present number of the Advocate rather less interesting than the last few issues. Several of the sketches are so short that the excuse for their existence should be more than ordinary merit; and in most cases this excuse is wanting. "Salem Skinner...
G. H. Montague '01 has written under the heading "Mr. George Moore" an exhaustive criticism of that novelists' work. "Wanship, out West" by F. W. Reynolds '03 is a sketch of a dusty little Western town,--interesting because it is written with the appreciation of true feeling. There are two...