Word: tales
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...current Advocate contains three stories of especial merit, "The Prophecy of St. Peter," by C. S. Harper, 3S., "On the Way to the Club," and "Kelley's Scoop," by J. B. Holden, Jr., '99. The first is a tale of a mining town and draws several unusually vivid characters, notably that of the hero, Peter. The plot is interesting from the first and the local color carefully given. It is stories of this type that are most valuable in college papers, for they strike out in original pathos and require the gift of narration in a large degree...
...fiction. Of the four stories the most entertaining from a college point of view is "The Surprises of Sanders" by H. P. Huntress '99. The plot is rather improbable but there is just enough surprise in it to give it justification. Strange to say the real heroine of the tale plays a very small part, and the reader is left wondering why she was introduced at all. She is certainly interesting when she does appear...
...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...
...most interesting article in the current number of the Advocate is a story by Frazier Curtis '98 entitled "A Story of Soldiers Field." It is a strong, vivid tale of a Freshman athlete disappointed in his great desire to play on his winning football team against Yale by his own foolishness. This for once is a college story, which is real and natural to a college...
SHAKESPEARE CLUB.- The club will meet at Beck 42 this evening at 7.30 o'clock and read "The Winter's Tale...