Word: mother
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...custom of old mother Advocate to don her best literary bib and tucker when she comes before the public for the first time in the year and her appearance day before yesterday is no exception to the rule. The first number of the year is on the whole, above the average of the Advocate Issues, although there are no striking productions...
There are but three stories in the number, and by far the best is Mr. Wilcox's "Another Man's Mother." The author has chosen for his theme the description of two types of character which we know to exist at Harvard and with which we feel a sympathy-the easy-going idler with a kind heart and good instincts, and the hard-working grind with high aims and ambitions. The "grind's" mother forms the medium through which good is accomplished for both, and the slight dash of pathos at the end only strengthens a story which is easily...
...Mother Advocate has much reason to congratulate herself on the last issue of her estimable paper, for the eighth number is decidedly the best one of the year. The editorials are few in number, clear and to the point; most of the stories and sketches have originality and show careful workmanship; the verse is less ambitious than usual and therefore more pleasing; and the College Kodaks-if they be English 12 themes-are of an A grade...
Although the college jester may have applied Motley's phrase, "a sheet of infinite platitude," to some of the recent numbers of the Advocate,-and what magazine does not have its gay and its dull days?- certain it is that good old mother Advocate has succeeded in hammering several "golden grains of wit" into the issue of her estimable paper which appears today. It is one of the best of the numbers of this year...
Professor Shaler has been called to Kentucky on account of the illness of his mother...