Word: machina
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Crush" is somewhat conventional; F. Schenck's "The Pall of the Wild" is cleverly named, and, like R. M. Arkush's "Sleep Fifteen Minutes after Luncheon," strikes one as much truer to Sophomore human nature than one would like to imagine it. Both are well written. "Ex-Machina," the remaining piece of fiction, is amusing, but like all the stories in this number, painfully unheroic...
...beginning of the year, good material should be hard to obtain, this excuse scarcely serves to explain away the general mediocrity of the contents of the number. The illustrations, almost without exception, are good and seem to indicate sufficient care in execution, particularly the frontispiece, "Dea ex Machina", the center-page, "What will it bring forth", and the head-piece to "By the Way", all excellent work. "By the Way" itself, however, offers serious ground for the suggestion, already often made, that this column be definitely done away with. All the possibilities of this department seem to have been exhausted...