Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...current Advocate contains four stories rather above the general average of college literature in point of literary skill. All of these have something to relate, and the interest of the reader is claimed at the very start and kept to the end. The writers do not indulge in fine writing or unusual phrases but take the sensible course of the story-teller who is interested in his plot for itself and not for the opportunity of showing his knack as a prose artist...
Reid, Clark and McCornick have had more or less baseball experience before entering college and should, by this time, have become well rounded out in point of accuracy and self-control...
...strained a tendon in his leg, but Nickerson 1901 is a strong jumper who compares favorably with Cheney, Yale's best man. In the weight events Yale may win the hammer throw, while Ellis 1901 may win the shot for Harvard. The pole vault is Yale's strong point, for in it she has Johnson, the intercollegiate champion, and Clapp who recently made the world's record. Yale further appears to be stronger in the bicycle event...
...forthcoming number of the Advocate contains four short stories, several verses and the usual complement of editorials and College Kodaks. The verses are all unpretentious and the chief interest in the number centres in the fiction. Of the four stories the most entertaining from a college point of view is "The Surprises of Sanders" by H. P. Huntress '99. The plot is rather improbable but there is just enough surprise in it to give it justification. Strange to say the real heroine of the tale plays a very small part, and the reader is left wondering why she was introduced...
...following Harvard men are members of Battery A, Light Artillery, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, which has been ordered to do coast defense duty at Galloupe Point, near Swampscot, one section will leave this morning, and the other next week: T. W. Peirce 1900, J. H. Sherburne, Jr., '99, D. Farrington 1900, H. G. Brooks '98, E. L. Sanborn '98, D. H. Bradlee '98, C. Jackson '98, P. Dove '98, E. L. Oliver '99, C. S. Stevens '99, R. B. Baker '99, E. B. Stanwood '99, E. B. Barstow '99, M. Stearns '99, J. H. Cunningham 1 Med., 0. Ames...