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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Index for 1897-98 was put on sale night before last. It is an improvement over last year's number in that it is less clogged and defaced with advertisements, and rather better arranged. Thirteen new clubs appear, among them the Golf Club, the Central New York Club, the Shooting Club, the Phi Delta Psi Society, the Fencing Club and others. As against these there are twelve clubs which, because of inactivity, do not appear; such for instance as the Free Silver Club, and the Peripatetic Club...
...desire of the editors to have the membership of the clubs as complete as possible." This in a measure disarms criticism, but it is no excuse for the complete omission of such clubs as the Freshman Banjo and Mandolin Clubs. There are several misprints which are more or less inevitable, but when these occur in the scores of 'Varsity games they become serious...
...imaginative interpretation of external nature is quite masterful; only when the story analyses powerful human emotion and its results, is unconvincingness approached. Then it tends either to exaggeration or melodrama. If R. P. Bellow's "The Hoaxing of Truesdale Bynner" is more facile and interesting, as literature it promises less for the writer's future. But both stories have an atmosphere of serious literary intention that the Advocate would do well to cultivate more...
...Varsity this spring has been a little more severe than usual on account of the southern trip which necessitates the early rounding out of the team and the choice of a nine. It is also the policy this year to start the men in hard and give them less work as the season advances. It is though that this southern trip will be one of the best means of selecting the nine early. All of the best men will be tested on this trip with the result that there will undoubtedly be a great change in the make...
This little book should find a place in our libraries next to the less human documents, Buffon's "Discours sur le Style," and Herbert Spencer's "The Philosophy of Style...