Word: motherly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Under the Sofa" might be called the spice of the literary dish which Mother Advocate sets before the college this time - for it is a vivacious dialogue with touches here and there of true Lampoon wit. The hero of the sketch is obliged by force of circumstances to remain under a sofa in a room where an afternoon tea is going on, and amusing complications naturally ensue...
...peculiarity of old Mother Advocate to indulge in a great deal of "patting on the back" in her editorials, and "Well-done, good and faithful servant!" seems to be the sum and substance of her remarks on the Athletic Association, the foot ball eleven, and College Conferences. In the one remaining editorial, - Mother Advocate suggests the feasibility of open spring handicap meetings as annual fixtures at Harvard. In this way, Harvard could make a return of the hospitality of the athletic clubs in Boston. Harvard's exclusiveness, in not holding open games on Holmes Field "is especially noticeable" says...
...maintained and supported by his father; these are strong circumstances, repelling the presumption of a change of domicil. So, if he have no father living, if he have a dwelling-house of his own, or real estate of which he retains the occupation; if he have a mother or other connections, with whom he has been accustomed to reside, and to whose family he returns in vacations; if he describes himself of such place, and otherwise manifests his intent to continue his domicil there; these are all circumstances tending to prove that his domicil is not changed. But if, having...
Under "Topics of the Day," discussion is given to "Bloody Monday Rushes," - a subject to which old Mother Advocate seems to cling with an undiminished pertinacity, - and "The Conditions of College Success." The latter is full of common sense and the key-note of the whole is struck in the concluding lines of the discussion, "The truest success lies rather in making the most of one's advantages than in attaining a flattering prominence in scholarship, societies, or athletics...
...College Kodaks," the second and fourth are the best, the former being the brighter of the two. It would have been better, perhaps, for mother Advocate's reputation as a teller of stories had she omitted the fifth Kodak, - a Travers story that has been for some of us coeval with Mother Goose...