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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sure, the social advantages of the Union can often be obtained even more fully at other clubs. But the Library cannot be duplicated. It has been said to be the best selected collection of books for the "youthful cultivated reader" in America; and the number who use the library show that that is not a contradiction in terms. There is no "red tape" connected with its mechanism. The reader can browse around the shelves at pleasure, can pick out books personally and enjoy them in quiet, while smoking the Union's cigarettes. With the possible exception of that...
...most interesting books on Chaucer that has ever appeared. Based upon profound and exact knowledge, it is as far as possible removed from pedantic scholarship. It is instinct throughout, with the liveliest enjoyment of Chaucer's art and its purpose is to impart to the reader something of the author's conception of Chaucer as 'the most modern of English poets and one of the most popular.' The style is that of a lecturer, lively at times almost colloquial, but always full of matter, fresh and stimulating. In the preface, Professor Kittredge acknowledges his debt to the work of other...
...works of Richard Strauss. If no strikingly novel criticism is to be found therein, there are many facts relating to the genesis of Strauss more important works, their technical and esthetic character which are presented with a continuity and grasp which makes them valuable to a less informed reader...
...clear and helpful without distinction. The City of Dreadful Life, though marred by more adjectives than are commonly approved and by mismated tenses, shows a talent for writing and a power of expressing colors and smells. In this number of the Advocate it is the one contribution that a reader would think of twice...
...containing among other articles extracts from Dean Briggs' "Routine and Ideals." To read this article is like having an interview with Dean Briggs himself. His sympathetic knowledge of a student's problems gained from a genuine warm-hearted interest in his welfare gains at once the confidence of the reader and imparts a special significance to his words. Parents as well as students will find the article instructive as it brings out the interdependence of the one on the other...