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...opening a new volume--Volume LX--the Harvard Monthly offers a well varied but slender number, a bare twenty-eight pages with four of its nine articles provided by the editors. This presumably forced inbreeding speaks ili for that independent pursuit of culture which it is the special function of a large university to foster. There should be more material--and more distinctive material available. And happily it is the newcomers who take the honors...
...class elections held yesterday the undergraduate voters had an opportunity to atone for the shamefully slender number of ballots cast last year, when the voting was held during an early October snowstorm. Yesterday, however, when no voter could plead inclement weather as an excuse for his absence from the polls, the number of ballots cast was again deplorably small. This disappointment is made cheerful only by the fact that those who did vote selected officers of energy and ability. With each undergraduate supporting the administration, and with the class coffers well cared for, there is every reason why the camaraderie...
With a modesty at once genuine and in part justified, Mr. Butler-Thwing characterizes his slender volume of Verses and prose Essays as "the sincere, even if badly expressed, life-and-death thoughts of a very young man." The Essays, though competent in style, will hardly outlive the occasion which they originally served. The Verses have somewhat more of significance and distinction. Thoughtful and manifestly sincere, they are the expression of a serious mind which has not yet reached its full maturity. Without sincerity there is no great art, but sincerity alone is not quite the whole story. Mr. Butler...
...themselves. But Storer and Hitchcock at tackles, and Pennock, Trumbull, Mills and the other men trying for the centre trio are not of such calibre that they can alone meet a heavy, well-organized and concentrated attack. They are all average, and very average at that, and the slender margin of superiority in line work established last year by Parmenter's generalship has vanished...
Though billed as a musical causerie there is in this new entertainment far more of the tuneful than of the chatty, and if we are to accept the verdict of packed houses this is quite as it should be. A slender plot for which two obliging comedians apologize--why should they?--a variety of entertainment ranging from trick bicycle riding to a classic ballet, uncommonly good taste in the way of settings and costumes, and a chorus made up not of painted puppets but of spirited and gifted human beings--these are a few of the charms of a thoroughly...