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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Fiction in the May number upholds, on the whole, the standard. The verse is strong evidence of accomplishment and of promise. Mr. Botkin's "Rondel" is distinguished for simplicity and charm...
...victory Loan Notes are probably the best investment that is offered in the market today," said Mr. Morss...
...Mr. LaFarge writes "To Frederic Schenck". The value of the poem is in the feeling it expresses toward its subject; a value marred only by the frequent lapses in word or phrase from the exalted to the mediocre. Possibly a simpler form might have left the evident sincerity of the work freer to be felt, but as it stands we may be grateful for the poem. The same difficulty with external form bothers the author of "Ghosts", and the reader is jolted out of whatever enjoyment he might derive from this treatment of an old theme. "The Gallows Thing...
...Mr. McVeagh discusses prohibition in much the manner of the adept writer of theses, but with evident thoughtfulness, which makes his work readable and often highly interesting. "The Beaver"--a character study of a most likable beaver--is well written, Mr. Strouts' "Problem of Economics" is admirable of its kind, and Mr. Munsey's translation "From the Spanish" has a quality unusual in undergraduate publications. Possibly the other prose in the number does not attain the standard set by these three, but all of it is readable, and none of it is without interest as representative undergraduate production...
...real excitement in the number is Mr. McVeagh's "Horrible Suggestion" that compulsory attendance at all college classes be abolished. Whatever "horror" there may be in the plan, is mitigated by the lightness and persuasiveness of the plea. Surely here is bait for discussion, and no undergraduate harassed by the office should be without this able docu- ment. Possibly the office itself should be supplied with copies. In any case, it is to be hoped more may be written on the various sides of the subject...