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...Edward G. Knoblauch is a story of the rivalry of the two belles of a country town. It is amusing though very improbable. A "Triolet" by H. H. is poor. The "College Kodaks" are very good, best of all is the fourth. The second and the last are the poorest. "The Artistic Temperament" by Townsend Walsh is one of the best things of the number. It is a story of a troup of wandering actors and is told in a bright and entertaining style. "The Sudden Conversion of Deacon Enoch Grubb" is rather weak and flat. There is not much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 5/11/1893 | See Source »

...commerce sorely needs the influence of strong and right-minded men today. It is not that men who do not follow Christ are always sinful, but they are always wasteful. They live out of the main current of history. The grandest truths are not to be entrusted to the poorest specimens of manhood. They need and must have strong men. Harvard is to maintain her character for honor, manliness and Christianity, and the students who go from her are to put these truths into active and powerful expression...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Drummond's Talk. | 4/18/1893 | See Source »

...them, but even this is not to be compared with the stories of the last number. Two of the "College Kodaks", the second and the third are very good; the first, fourth, and fifth are fair, while the last is weak. The poetry of the number is the poorest part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 3/18/1893 | See Source »

...Digression of Malton" is the poorest story in the number. Though it may portray one element of college life, the story seems improbable and is weak in its conclusion. There is no perceptible plot and the characters are not interesting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Magazines. | 3/1/1893 | See Source »

...University Settlement" is to be established in Philadelphia, under the management of college graduates. A schedule of studies is to be offered similar to that given at the "Prospect Union," but in addition, entertainments are to be rendered for the benefit of the very poorest classes, at which the admission fee will be but one cent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/8/1893 | See Source »

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