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...resume of Professor Muensterberg's book misplaces his emphasis in dwelling on points which he finds extravagant. If the book be for the most part "sane," why not convey that impression? "The Spirit of Satire" is better; it exemplifies the serious prose which befits a magazine with intellectual readers. Still, one should, not begin with Greeks and end with grunts. For R. W. Chubb's statement of "The Position of the Internationalists of Europe" the reader will feel grateful for a timely, informative article. There is but one story; better so than to lower the standard. "The Finger...
...team will be gleamed by those who witness the Bates game. A great deal has previously been printed in the newspapers from coast to coast about the relative merits of eastern and western football elevens. In these accounts Harvard's strength has been rated high enough to give any reader the impression that to win the football championship of the east we have only to trust to the ability of several individuals who were on the team last year. The CRIMSON believes that the thinking undergraduate will immediately discard these "doped" press statements as valueless and accede to the following...
...Tormo the Trout" by Mr. Weston is a daintily worded and slightly mystie sketch of the sort that is pleasant to read but which leaves no particular impression on the reader's mind. Mr. McCormick's vivid study based on a shipwreck makes a definite impression. So little emphasis is laid on the first phase of the story, however, that the plot does not receive the full benefit of the sharp contrast as the character develops...
There was a time--within the memory of men yet living--when the reader was at least sure of finding good verse in the Monthly, be the prose what it might. The present number of the Monthly was, I am told, intended to be a "Poetry" number. It contains four poems and a piece of metre which essays to imitate a freight train crossing a bridge, and succeeds. Of the four poems the best is that by Herbert Bates '90, which serves as a heading to Mr. Trynin's story. Mr. Garland's verses "The Lee Shore" have spirit...
...last number of the Advocate, "there is nothing," as we might have said in the eighteenth century, "that could be construed by the nicest reader into a trespass upon the rules of decorum." There is nothing--story, verses, or editorial article--that would not deserve, at least a satisfactory grade if offered in an English course in Harvard University. In these respects the number is superior to many of the magazines with brilliant covers that you may buy for fifteen cents in the stations of the Cambridge Subway. To the present reviewer, also, this Advocate is quite as interesting...