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...editorials handle adequately the inevitable and trite subjects of the opening year. The one entitled "Concerning Advice to Freshmen" is unusually clever; but it attempts to take the traditional Freshman away from us by asserting, in veiled language, that a Freshman may know almost as much as a Sophomore. This is unfair; the "verdant Freshman" has become a College tradition, and the Advocate is too respectable to break down wantonly so venerable a superstition. On the whole, the aim of the number is most commendable; it is only to be regretted that so many of our writers insist on following...
...play is written in verse of great variety and striking effect and indeed its charm lies rather in well turned phrases and humorous situations than in any remarkable originality of plot. First produced in 1704, it is still a masterpiece on a theme now become almost trite...
...Yale is afraid to speak out lest someone say that their protests are inspired by the "sourness" following the loss of a game. But it seems to me that there should be some straight forward expression of what we all must feel, even at the risk of hearing the trite response about being "sour." Whether or not any of the actions of the Princeton supporters last Saturday made a difference of a few runs, or of the game, is now immaterial; but as a matter of principle for this year and other years, the time has come to say that...
...Scholarship in College," by J. B. Warner '69, is the most profitable article in the January Monthly. It treats of the old, yet never quite trite subject of an undergraduate's responsibility to himself and his own future, and the importance of definite scholastic purpose during the four college years. The final sentences are worth quoting: "Remember that a college course is not an education: it is the opportunity for one, and is what you make it. It can deliver a man at the end, blankly unaware of the high things among which he has been moving, a vacant idler...
Perhaps the best story is Louis How's "A Tale of the San Luis Valley," a cleverly drawn sketch of Mexican life. "The Warning," by John Allyne Gade, though based on a rather trite idea, is redeemed by original and effective treatment...