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...stories, "Tom Morley, Waiter," by Arthur Holden Gilbert, is written in an offhand vein well suited to the subject. The point might have been reached as well in fewer words. Though the plot of "A Spool of Thread" by Forbes Watson, seems a bit trivial, the story is well told, with good detail and imagination. The best part of "The Sea," by A. P. Wadsworth, is the straightforward style in which it is told. A clean setting is made in the fewest possible words and the story is free from interruptions...
...three selections of verse the best from a literary point of view is a sonnet entitled "Poetry," by Lauriston Ward. It is unconventional, has much freedom of movement and expresses the thought admirably. In a very different vein is "The Ballad of the Overconfident Pollywog," by F. R. DuBois. This "fable for Freshmen" is full of life, amusing, and all the better for being quite different from the usual run of Advocate verse. "Sunset in Penobscot Bay" by W. B. W. shows appreciation of nature and is written in a metre well adapted to the subject. The number closes with...
...Taylor '01, who wrote the book of the play, has followed a rather more serious vein than is usually found in theatricals of this kind. The music, however, is very bright and catchy, the dances are full of life, and the choruses keep together and show careful training. The acting is clever for the most part, being remarkably natural and unstilted...
...periodicals have lately been started by the students. One, a small weekly paper called "The Examiner", devoted to the criticism in a satirical vein of all manner of undergraduate evils, has already appeared. The other, which is still in preparation, is to be of a humorous character, like the Yale Record and the Lampoon. Another publication of interest to Pennsylvania men is the volume of "Pennsylvania Stories" lately issued, written by Arthur Hobson Quinn '94, who is now an instructor in the college. These stories treat of life at the University of Pennsylvania, after the manner of similar volumes...
...Parker. Colonel Higginson, in his simple and graceful style, has treated his subjects not as historical figures, but as living men and women. The sketches of Ulysses S. Grant, Wendell Phillips, and Theodore Parker are thoughtful and appreciative, and the reminiscences of John Holmes are written in a happy vein. Two articles of exceptional interest are those entitled, "An Evening with Mrs. Hawthorne" and "A Visit to John Brown's Household...