Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...there must be some men who have other motives for enlisting at present than their duty to their country alone. "A Birthday Telegram," by A. S. Friend 1900, and "From Him That Hath Not," by H. M. Adams '98, are pathetic little tales, the latter a particularly delicate sketch. "Facilis Descensus Averno," by M. Seasongood 1900, is slight but amusing. The poems are all short, with the exception of one entitled "The Burial...
...present Advocate contains several interesting stories, none of which, however, are worthy of especial praise. The short sketch, "When the Lepers Left Kalalan, " is the best piece of writing in the number. The anonymous author has started out in a style of story not often found in a college paper, and worthy of more cultivation. "Dexter's Discovery" is a new version of a story we have all read before either in the Advocate or in some other college magazine. It seems rather a waste of good material that so many men should try their hands at this same...
...page is a striking picture of the re-christened cruiser "Harvard" and is one of the best illustrations the Lampoon has printed for some time. The verses at the foot of the picture would do credit to the heart of a more ambitiously serious sheet than the Lampoon. The sketch "As Others See Us," shows Harvard as viewed by the Boston newspapers, according to which the whole college is on a martial footing. The rest of the pictures and the short stories are of the usual order. The editorial criticises a very common error in the attitude of the students...
...Mackeigan's Last Hope" by R. P. Bellows '99, is skilfully written and interesting in plot. The writer leaves the ordinary path of the college story and strikes out in a road of his own. The tale is perhaps best described as a character sketch in which the main figure is shown under varying conditions. The reader's interest continually increases until the very end when the author breaks off abruptly and leaves the climax to the imagination. The effect of this style is good and places the sketch above the ordinary run of college stories...
...picture entitled "Lampy's Idea of an Advocate Editor at Work" is weird in the extreme. The series "As Others See Us" is continued by a sketch of Harvard as seen by a recent writer. The editorial deals with the proposed change in the Class Day exercises and claims to solve the problems presented, in three simple and self-evident plans. Aside from the pictures and the editorial the number contains nothing worthy of special note unless the short conversation, "Lispings of Little Lew," has claims because of its simplicity...