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...always interested in the first number of a college magazine produced by a new board of editors: it usually indicates the character of later issues. To judge from the present specimen, readers of the Advocate for the rest of the year may expect to find there each fortnight a few suggestive editorial notes, in the discussion of which undergraduates may find occasion to sharpen their wits, several short stories calculated to suit varying tastes but never dull, and some bits of verse which should not be analyzed too closely...
Another article of interest is Mr. Samuel Henshaw's illustrated account of the Okayi, a rare specimen just acquired by the Agassiz Museum of an African animal akin to the giraffe. A criticism, by S. T. M., of the exhibition of the Camera Club addresses itself particularly to amateur photographers. General entertainment is provided in Mr. Stoddard's diary of a youthful would-be dilettante...
...Stadium, June 16 and 19, have been held regularly since October. This tragedy is the first of the Oresteia, the three plays on the fortunes of the house of Atreus. Representing the highest achievement of Aeschylus and probably of all Greek drama, they form the only extant specimen of a trilogy...
...Hills '00, instructor in public speaking, has again prepared the acting version and will have general supervision of the production. This play by Thomas Heywood is the eighth in the series of Elizabethan revivals begun by the fraternity in 1898. The play is an amusing and little-known specimen of Heywood's domestic drama, and deals more with comedy and farce than with romance...
...volume was prepared with particular care after an Italian model of the fifteenth century, and is a very fine specimen of the bookbinders...