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...title of the leading article of the issue, the second installment of a series called "Varied Outlooks" and presenting various points of view of college life. There is no reason why such expressions should not be given and received in the Advocate with candor and benefit. Mr. Van Wyck Brooks' defence of the type of mind indicated by a fair understanding of the word "aesthetic" becomes not so specialized a view as he forecasts. He is as abhorrent of "new culture" as he is severe towards the "coarse mind"; and the "poser" wherever found, whether he reads Pierre Loti...
...Religion of Spring," by Van Wyck Brooks, is a haze of vague expression and puffs of thought. It impresses one like that admirable Turner picture, "Steam and Fog." The longest of three short poems is one by J. H. Wheelock, "The Close of Mass." This has the quality of good poetry, in that it will bear re-reading and inspires thought...
...which appeared yesterday, contains the following article: Editorials; "Storm," by H. S. Wyndham-Gittens '06; "Stung," by H. D. Chandler '06; "The Ballad of Those That Mock," by J. Hinckley '06; "Harvard Types, 2, Our Friend Brattle Hall," by J. H. B.; "The Rest of the Circle," by Van Wyck Brooks '08; "A Freshman's Letters Home," by E. D. B.; "To a Man of Pompeii," by Van Wyck Brooks...
Casper Whitney in the current number of Harper's Weekly names the all American football eleven as follows; Brooke, University of Pennsylvania, fullback; Thorne, Yale (captain), and C. Brewer, Harvard, halfbacks; Wyck off, Cornell, quarterback; Bull, University of Pennsylvania, centre; Whatrton, University of Pennsylvania, and Riggs, Princeton, guards; Murphy, Yale, and Lea, Princeton, tackles; Gelbert, University of Pennsylvania, and Cabot, Harvard, ends. Substitutes: Woodruff, University of Pennsylvania, Beacham, Cornell, Chadwick, Yale, and Church, Princeton, in the line; Minds, University of Pennsylvania, King, West Point, Fincke, Yale, and Wrightington, Harvard, back of the line...
...Rogers and Freeborn. In addition to these are Hall, stroke of the Henley crew, McLaughlin '98 and Sweetland of last year's Union College team. For ends, Taussig and Beacham have had the most experience, but they will be crowded hard by six or eight other good candidates. Captain Wyck-off will play at quarter, his old position. There is a large number of heavy half-backs. Saussy, Dyer and Starbuck of last year's team, White who played last year with the Elmira A. C., and Johnson of the Chicago A. C., are the most promising...