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The Advocate enters upon its twenty-sixth year and fifty-first volume with the number which comes out today. It is pre-eminently a prose number, there being but one short poem of six lines. Most of the stories are written by new men and are in great measure unpretentious relations of incidents common to a college man's life.
The editorials of the number discuss the arrangement of dates by the nine management, the lessons to be drawn from the recent business meeting of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the tug-of-war question, recent bequests to Harvard and suggestions for their disposal, and the general training table.
The first fiction of the number, "How We Routed the Ghosts," is, as its title indicates, a modern ghost story, and a local one at that. The plot of the tale is very slender, the language is at times ill chosen and the humor is so excessively fine as to be almost imperceptible.
"Long Charles" is an interesting character sketch of a negro, "one of those questionable characters who hang about respectable neighborhoods, doing odd jobs for the house-wives and filching a living from back doors." The dialect of the darkey is not always consistent, but on the whole the sketch has some power.
"A Harvard Reaction" is a fairly clever sketch of the evolution of the typical Harvard junior, food of sports and the festal rites of Bloody Monday, from the chrysalis of the theorizing and dreaming sub-freshman.
"The Fire That Failed" is a brief society story of little force. Its author has done better work.
"A Brilliant Failure" is, on the whole, the best of the larger articles of the number. It is a well-told story. It is the parable of the master, the servants, and their talents modernized.
"College Kodaks" are decidedly the most interesting reading of the number, showing an originality which most of the larger articles of the number do not possess. The first and third "Kodaks" seem to be the best of the five.
The only verse of the number, "Doubt," discusses in six trimetrical lines the advisability of giving to man a mind "so circumscribed that it is blind to all sane doubt."
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