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...little individuality, and not much responsiveness in vocabulary. Mr. Wheelock appears twice in this number, neither time in a Christmas spirit and neither time at his best. "The Return after Death" is ambitious and in spots effective, but suffers from want of metrical skill and from occasional weakness of word. The "Song," though less faulty, is also less interesting. It is noteworthy that both poems tell of a love which shall be "not as before...
...justice to the coaching staff I feel that a word from me would not be out of place. Especially at this time--the most critical point in the season--it is essential that this department be given the enthusiastic and undivided support it merits...
...this collection, is now well patronized, but needs especially those books used in large courses such as History 1, Government 1, Economics 1, and English A, as the demand for these is greatest. Men living in private houses who wish to add to the collection are requested to send word to J. P. Marsh, Holworthy...
...first number of the Advocate for the current academic year modestly states the aim of the paper. Commendable, this, and admirable, were sufficient emphasis put on the word "Instructive." But the current number is likely to make a graduate at least fear that the editors of the advocate do not subject undergraduate articles to sufficiently severe criticism to furnish their authors much real instruction in the art of writing. More than half of the sixteen pages of the present paper deserve praise solely for general, but not invariable, correctness of style (while after all should be taken for granted...
...gave him entrance into the narems of some of the Eastern potentates. In travelling through Africa, Korea, and China, Dr. Smith earned the gratitude of many of the natives by exterminating lions and tigers that were constantly a source of terror to the inhabitants of isolated villages. In a word, he knows the jungles and deserts and can make his hearers feel their charm...