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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...entitled "Fate in Red," by D. L. The plot involves a somewhat unconventional love affair, but is handled in such a way that the reader's interest is held throughout. The writer displays a strong love for nature and gives several bits of exceedingly good description. One of the shorter stories, by the same author, entitled, "His Heart," gives a thrilling picture of a storm on a rocky coast, but there is very little plot and the ending is decidedly weak...
...shorter stories seem the better. "Our Visitors" and "Epitaph on a Maid-of-all-work" by H. W. Longfellow are especially good, "To a Drop of Fresh Pond Water" by Curtis Guild, Jr., '81, and "The Maiden's Gambit" by F. J. Stimson '76, show no signs of age except in the appended dates of their respective authors...
...been abolished and a new four-year course in Commerce and Industry substituted. A gratifying increase in the proportion of college graduates among the new law students is noted. At present forty per cent are graduates and twenty-one per cent additional have attended college for a longer or shorter period...
...indifferent merit. A sympathetic yet admirably frank introduction by Daniel G. Mason '95 gives an attractive picture of Mr. Savage as a man, and puts the reader in an appreciative mood. An ever-present love of nature is evident in nearly all of the poems. Especially do the shorter verses catch and hold this quality, happily phrased and musical as they often are. At times, however, there is too much of the observer and not enough of the poet in evidence, since the verses rely for their effect rather on delicacy of conception than on depth of purpose...
...editorials are readable and the shorter articles, particularly the verses, are amusing; but, on the whole, in point of merit, the reading matter still lags behind the illustrations...