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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Christmas number of the "Advocate," with its special cover, is decidedly readable throughout. An intelligent and well balanced criticism on Richard Harding Davis is the first main article of the number. "A Bottle of Alcohol" is somewhat unpleasant in subject but shows great facility in short story writing. A Christmas story called "A Gift of Gifts," will interest the regular readers of the Advocate, because they may see in it promises for the future. Its merits are so striking that one feels that time will obliterate the faults it exhibits...
...known lines on Christmas. The burden of the song is a promise to refrain from punning and to cultivate a higher form of wit. Unfortunately the "swear off" seems to apply only to that particular department. One is tempted to wish that such a healthy reform might be instituted throughout the Lampoon, in all issues to come...
After a few introductory remarks, Mr. Davenport, president of the society, presented Mr. Hornaday, who made a strong appeal for the preservation of our native wild animals. Mr. Hornaday began by giving evidence of the extermination of such animals as used to be abundant throughout the country. This destruction, he said, is continually going on among all animals, but is especially noticeable among birds. Reports from all sections of the country show that there is a decrease of more than fifty per cent. The number of birds and animals exterminated within a few years is already large, and the prospects...
...performance of the French Department play in Sanders Theatre last night was as might be expected, the best that has yet been given. The audience was appreciative throughout and twice called out the principals. Asst. Professor de Sumichrast, after two curtain calls, made a speech of thanks...
...best ever held in the Yale-Harvard series. It was direct all the way through, it never hung on the wording of the question, and it was not marred by any slip of either side. Another characteristic was the intense interest aroused by every speaker and maintained throughout the debate by the exact knowledge of the subject shown on both teams, the perfect form of presentation of Harvard, and the convincing earnestness of Yale. In the rebuttals all these qualities were present and in addition to them a marvellous quickness in grasping and refuting arguments, together with a very unusual...