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...example of a type of article of which we might well have more in college periodicals, and is specific enough in its information to be extremely useful. Mr. von Kaltenborn appears again with a well-executed translation of Daudet's telling short story, "The Boy Spy." A sonnet on William Ernest Henley by W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez betrays an enthusiastic admiration for its subject, and uses in the sextet a phrase that finely recalls one of Henley's most exquisite productions...
Though in the number as a whole there is perhaps nothing so insignificant as entirely and immediately to escape one's memory after reading, there are only two pieces that have elements of power-Mr. Moore's sketch and Mr. Wheelock's sonnet. In both the strength lies in the authors having something vital to express. T. HALL...
...influence and reputation of the University seems to the reviewer only another proof of the charge that athletics are viewed by many students in a totally false perspective. A. H. Elder describes the growth of lacrosse in the American colleges, and makes a plea for its further development. A sonnet, "Notre Dame de Paris," is smoothly written, and the octave has some excellent lines...
...lecturer and author. The articles all have more to say of Professor James's personality than of his contributions to learning, and taken together they give, from different points of view, a very consistent account of a character that has deeply influenced recent generations of Harvard men. A sonnet, taken from "The Critic," comments appropriately, though in rather halting verse, on Mr. James's extraordinary receptivity and human sympathy...
...poems it is pleasant and appropriate that the first in the number should be a sonnet to William Vaughn Moody '93, who bids fair to take very high, if not first rank among American poets--and, as an editorial suggests, among American dramatists also. It is noteworthy also that this sonnet should be the work of Percy Mackaye '97, who delighted all of us who heard the play with his strong musical verse in "Jeanne d'Arc." "Villanelle," by W. H. Wright Sp., and "The Descent of Istar into Hades" by J. H. Wheelock '08 enshrine some of the tricks...