Word: readers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...made in support of our sports, specifically and collectively, and in the remarks upon athletic management. Professor Hollis boldly challenges the validity of arguments which are commonly accepted as of force; and though he concludes that the evidence upon the whole favors intercollegiate sports, he succeeds in shaking the reader's faith in much which may have been unquestioned. In fact to those who do not require good reasons for what they approve his treatment may seem a little rude. It is the kind of article which sets one thinking...
...article which deserves special mention for its delicate and sympathetic treatment is "The Children's Room," by V. V. M. Beede. The whole sketch is done with a fidelity to detail and a genuineness of feeling that brings back to the reader many pleasant, half-forgotten memories...
...several verses and tales, the relation of which to college surroundings is slight, and which are possessed of no striking merit. Of his own book he says in his preface: "No Harvard man will take this book seriously. It deals solely with the doings of a few extremists." The reader is likely to agree with him. In making this statement he has deserved better of the University than some fellow-authors who express no qualification in their writing. It would seem better still if, recognizing that his book was not fairly representative of Harvard life, he had carried his self...
...Piece of Undergraduate Heresy," is perhaps of more local interest in the Advocate Sanctum than for the general reader...
...stories of this kind. "The Reincarnation of Freddy" by F. R. Little, and "Sonnet Writing Exposed," by S. Greenfield, deserve special notice. The former, told in a happy-go-lucky style with frequent touches of humor, holds the interest of the reader till the end. The latter, a serio-comic essay with a good deal of truth mixed in, not only has the value of much wit, but takes hold of a live college topic...