Word: reader
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...complications, and "The Game." The space assigned to the hour examinations is relative to their importance--as interpreted by the jester. Of the three numbers that have thus far appeared, the last issue has perhaps the fewest jokes that are not worth the time demanded of both writer and reader...
...Reader--"Review of Joseph Conrad's 'Falk,'" by H. Copeland...
...first number of the Advocate, with its contents of very varied degrees of merit, can hardly be called disappointing, for one does not expect consistent excellence in its contributions; yet one cannot help wishing that the prose in an opening number might have been such as to prepossess the reader more favorably toward the coming volume that a glance at the stories offered is likely to do. The editorials are a straight-forward setting forth of thoughts pertinent to the opening year--the reunion for the upper classmen, the new friendships and opportunities for the Freshmen--and are worth attention...
...great advantage in their present shape. The climatic conditions of Cambridge, the Water in the Yard, the Freshman and his Cash account, and the more recent material, the Union waiter has for some reason offered--are all treated in the recent issue, and are, well known to every reader. The "By the Way" has a somewhat more elaborate verbal jugglery than usual, but is otherwise quite as unreadable. The drawings in themselves are well executed, and the centre page is a remarkably accurate portrait of an actual event...
...story free from serious defects is "The Aristocrat." As it stops when its logical end is reached, it has the unusual distinction of leaving something to the Willing imagination of the reader. "Nathaniel," though rather fantastically improbable, is interesting and clever. "Fog and Sunlight," "Old Humphry's Spook" and "Samuel" are all of the bad dream variety and are all of the bad dream variety and are inferior in treatment because their authors had nothing...