Word: legend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Mission Legend" is the best story in this number. As the writer states, it is written entirely without regard to style or effect, and this same unpretentiousness lends a great charm to it. The tale is that of the love of an Indian princess for a Mission Father with its tragic and unexpected...
...seems eminently true of college life that when everything appears to be running smoothly and in good order then there is sure to be any petty mischief or misconduct brewing. This morning, after such a season of refreshing quiet, passers by the front of Sever were attracted by a legend painted across the rear of Appleton Chapel condemning in well rounded terms our faculty. Such childish tricks are undoubtedly to some degree thoughtless, and cannot therefore be visited with any severe penalty; and yet they exhibit to a disgusting degree a lack of refinement. If there had been any humor...
...Davis contributes an amusing story called "A Legend of Mugiwassit." It is successful as being in a new vein and is both interesting and readable. The gravity under which the improbability of the plot is hidden adds greatly to the effect...
...Island Legend" is an interesting sketch. The description is excellent, and the style effective...
...silent grandeur seems lying stretched out before the reader, while the account of the little guide has in it a vein of pathos which adds greatly to the sketch. The fate of an artist who fell in love with a ghostly maiden is told in "A New England Legend." It is very concisely written and does not lack interest. "Topics of the Day" is a new departure in the Advocate. It is not to appear in every number; but it is to be devoted to live subjects of discussion among the students. The department in the present number is filled...