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Chapter I contains a sketch of the relations of the Federation of Territorial Clubs of the College at large, by J. B. Langstaff '13, its founder and first president. This is followed by a treatise on Scholarship" in the second chapter by D. E. Dunbar '13, who was second marshal of Phi Beta Kappa in his Senior year. He explains the system of instruction and of granting scholastic honors. W. L. Ustick '13 describes religious life to the University in the following chapter showing its connection with and inference on University life...
...Society, and several other equally important associations Mr. Matthews has probably acquired a complete knowledge of the customs and rules in the early days of the College and is an authority on the history of the period upon which he is writing. Mr. Matthews is the author of a sketch on commencement in the seventeenth century, which will probably interest present undergraduates...
...good old-fashioned "Gothic" tale, with secret door, mysterious staircase, damp, dark passage, etc., etc., even to the coincidence which brings the final disaster just at the right moment to catch the characters in the story. Mr. Jackson's "Point of View" is a short, vivid, and fairly amusing sketch of Western life. "Paraffine Percy," by Mr. Douglas, is the one piece of real distinction in the number. Even this would be better--nonsense though it is--if the ending were stronger. The laws of climax apply just as much to nonsense as to any other kind of writing...
...would-be maturity of vocabulary coupled with "superfluent enthusiasm" and disproportion in criticizing the Drama League and elaborating a pen-picture of the sentry, are symptomatic of the writer who seeks to hide in phraseology a poverty of ideas. The number proves worth while mainly in the diverting episodic sketch by Mr. Nathan, certainly in lighter vein, but well characterized and constructed with better sense of dramatic values than the same writer's dialogue, "The Coward." In this the blindness of Peggy is forced, and Harry's use of brandy too like the conclusion of "The Cradle Snatcher...
...remaning prose Mr. Petersen's sketch of "Fiddlepeg Smith" sacrifices to narrative climax the main interest--the character of Fiddlepeg, with whom we fail to attain intimacy. In concluding with Richard Dana Skinner's article on Belloc, which deserved emphasis because of its clear method and definite thought, one notes its greater freedom from petty vices of alliteration, involved figures, and appositional clauses such as mar the style especially of Mr. Moyse Would that the Monthly, as representative of Harvard might stand for truth to life and good sense, as in the work of Mr. Nathan and Mr. Hillyer...