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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...verse I am incapable of criticising; the reviews and the editorials are well-written. I object bitterly to "Mater Felixissima";. perhaps some proof-reader was guilty. But why is it that the various articles produce the impression of being trimmed to a fixed length? Is it due to editorial excisions, or is it a habit acquired in the process of writing compulsory themes...
...variety of fare offered by the current Advocate demands a selective appetite on the part of the reviewer. Periodicals partake of the nature of boarding houses; the hungry reader can generally envisage the sort of vegetable prose and marshmallow verse that will be set before him. The chefs of the Advocate, unusually expert, have provided this month relishes full of spice and a piece de resistance of original flavor...
After the tremendous success of his books, Mr. Streeter's ambition to put on the stage the further adventures of Bill is tempting the Gods--for every reader of "Dere Mable" will expect Bill and Mable to be just as he imagined them. A great deal of disappointment is inevitable under such conditions, but the splendid characterizations, especially by Mr. Bennison, and Mr. Wolsey, who takes the part of Angus, warrant the success of the production. In the words of Bill, "A good time was had by all" at the Tremont last night...
...note is distinctly and pleasantly struck again in the well managed dialect and lingering atmosphere of the trenches in the story entitled "Aiming at Auntie," another of the "Billet Ballads." It is not only the tantalizing moment at which this first part of the tale ends that makes the reader look eagerly forward to the continuation in a subsequent number. Curiously enough, one of the books reviewed, "Peter Kindred,' by Robert Nathan, takes up the very theme of the application, after graduation, of principles learned at Harvard. In the other review, Mr. Damon discusses with admirable critical acumen and clarity...
...Laski's offence or offences are not wholly clear to the uninformed reader, but if he had dynamited the Widener Library or stolen a quart of the Lampoon's champagne we should hardly expect a more scathing indictment than the one that Lampy gives...