The sixth number of the Advocate is not so replete with meritorious articles as the last issue, although there is nothing absolutely poor and one of the longer prose articles, "Uncle Kim," possesses some originality and cleverness.

The larger editorials deal with the base ball and general athletic situation at the present time and with the scheme of instruction in pedagogy which the faculty offers for next year. Concerning the former the Advocate acts simply as the judge who sums up the facts of a case for the jury without offering any decided opinion.

An interesting "Communication" is that which C. B. W. '70 of Cincinnati contributes on that much-discussed subject, "The proposed shortening of the college course." He sets forth his opinions in an interesting and forcible way and offers the suggestion that students who are in a hurry to get out into the world might be given an A. B., to distinguish which from the genuine article, it might be written in old English letters or with the B smaller than the A!

"Uncle Kim" is a careful and praiseworthy sketch of a certain type of man, old and whimsical. peculiar to the small villages of New England, and there are several original touches in Mr. Cummings' description which are attractive.

"The Limp One" by Kenneth Brown is unique, to say the least. It is a fantastic sketch of physiology class of ghouls, the "limp one" being what Is familiarly known in medical parlance as a stiff." A number of "little moonbeams" are permitted to creep into the room and they form the medium through which the story is told. The style of the sketch is that of one of Anderson's fairy stories with a lack of the latter's delicacy of expression, one noticeable defect being the constant repetition of the expression "little moonbeams."

"My Revolution" is the best production of "C. E. H." which has appeared in the Advocate, although its merit is not conspicuous. The style is simple, the story straightforward; there is a lack of climax at the end of the tale, however, which leaves an unsatisfactory impression.

The verse of the number consists of but one poem, "A Rainy Day" by Algernon Tassin. It is a difficult poem to criticize, but it certainly shows poetical striving on the part of its author.

The "College Kodaks" are not quite so good as usuai-the first being the best of the four, however.