Word: outranks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...number of the Advocate out today the stories, as usual, outrank the verse. The poems, with the exception of "It Hath No Thorns" by Lyon Ives, seem decidedly forced and labored. Most aim too high, but an unsigned quatrain sets too low a goal and reaches it. The best of the stories are "From Mount Auburn to Exeter Street," an amusing piece of imagination, and "Endicott and the Janitor," by H. W. Eliot, an excellent character study. The editorial is sensible and well pointed but it interests the Advocate writers more than the readers of the paper. The other stories...