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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...feature of the present issue of the Advocate, that word would be spontaneity. On one hand, spontaneity best characterizes the wide variety of subject-matter, the liberality of form and the exuberance of spirit, which are throughout apparent. On the other hand, spontaneity may account for a quantity of old-fashioned fiction out of proportion to its merit, and one or two lapses in the choice of words...
...Old English, headlines seem too elaborate, however. The new features speak well for the ingenuity and enterprise of the 1917 board. The inconvenience caused by the late publication is easily offset by the absence of some of the more distressing errors. The scope of the book has been enlarged to include articles about several of the Graduate Schools; a map of the University showing the location of the clubs and the homes of undergraduate activities; and a calendar of the year's events made particularly up-to-date by the incorporation of the baseball schedule, hitherto unpublished. The feature...
...critics as tackle on the all-Eastern elevene. His brilliant tackling and following of the ball was a feature, in the games with Princeton and the University, and his recovery of Legore's fumble in the latter game was directly responsible for the Yale touchdown. Gates is 20 years old, weighs 180 pounds and is 6 feet tall...
...lines on Atticus do consort incongruously enough with Hudibras and Keat's urn and the other members of this cento; yet, though the poet's head as well as heart be "poor-rhyming," he vallantly says what he thinks. New wine, if strong, should not be put in old bottles, but when weak, it may gain flavor from the less...
...whirled from a busy office to a medium's den and to a country estate with good old jollity as guide. It is only to be hoped Bostonians may take many more such trips...