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...Advocate which comes out today is noteworthy chiefly for the editorial dealing with the kind of contributions generally handed in. It acknowledges the unfitness of some that have appeared and asks for others in a lighter and more wholesome vein, especially some that describe college life as it really is. For the rest of the number J. A. Macy '99 contributes a rather amusing little dialogue, R. T. Fisher '98 a slight but well-written sketch, and A. G. Fuller 1900 a fairly successful attempt at weirdness of effect. Besides these, two and a half pages are occupied with...
...number of the Advocate is in a healthier vein than usual. Of the four main articles, only one-"A Horse Race at Hot Sulphur," by Hal Sayre, Jr., '98-is of Western life, and this without any slaughter whatever. "On Being at Home in the World," an essay by R. P. Utter '98, is an attempt to prove "that the world is a better place to be at home in than a house of four walls...
...large audience was present last evening in Sanders Theatre to listen to the address by Mr. Lehmann on the subject "The University as a Training Ground for the Public Speaker." President Grilk of the Union introduced Mr. Lehmann, who spoke in an interestingly reminiscent vein...
...bulk of the number. G. H. Scull '98 has one of his strong but ugly Western sketches, entitled "A Little Turn from the Road." The story is characteristically vivid. A spark of sentiment shines throngh the drizzle of the weather and the unpleasantness of the characters. In the same vein, but with decidely more charm and less intenseness, is "An Emigration in the West," by a new contributor to the "Advocate," H. Sayre...
...evening were those given by Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith and Miss Ruth McEnery Stuart. The former is well known as the author of "Colonel Carter of Cartersville" and other delightful sketches of Southern life. He read two of the selections from "Colonel Carter" in a truly charming vein, capturing his audience completely. Miss Stuart also read one of her sketches of Southern life-"Maria's Mo'nin'." The sketch itself runs in a vein of contagious humor, and Miss Stuart read it in a manner calculated to bring out all there was in it. Charles Follen Adams, in his Dutch...