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...current number of the Advocate is of a quality suitable to revive discussion as to the wisdom of spreading broadcast in the name of the University experiments in English not at all representative of undergraduate ability. The leading editorial, on athleticism, would lag less lamely were there any evident need for its making or if it established its case and proved that undergraduate life would be better by loading the scholar and not the athlete with college honors...
...acting on the whole was very good, though rather irregular, but considering that the Cercle has lost the services of three of last year's principal characters, Knoblauch, Schurz and Pitts, it was very satisfactory. The play chosen, however, is apt to lag a little in places, though some of the situations are extremely good...
...parlous a task it is to attempt systematic criticism of the present or near past in literature; but if we are to wait until the world has made up its mind about what it is reading today, it will then be reading something else, and our criticism will always lag superfluous in the development of taste; it will be useful to students, but caviar to the public. It is not, then, worth while to take Grimm's words to heart, and to have the courage to fail rather than leave the task unattempted? If the critic can be more helpful...
Last night Mr. Black lectured to an unusually large audience, on Addison and Steele. Our interest in these two great authors of the seventeenth century never seems to lag; it would be hard to learn too much of them...
...matches are obvious. Often men who otherwise would never take the opportunity to learn the game, turn out to be very fine players from the prace ice they get in these contests, and the exercise they afford to all is invaluable. That this interest may not be allowed to lag, but rather may be encouraged as much as possible in the future, we would suggest to the football management that a series of amateur matches be instituted and a set of cups be offered for the winners. We make the suggestion now, that, if the plan be considered worthy...