The first number of the Advocate, which comes out today, is good thrughout and decidedly interesting and refreshing reading. The best pieces in the number are two stories: "The Misses Bentley's Telescope," by A. B. Ruhl, and "The Manger's Office," by J. A. Macy. In this last the atmosphere of the manager's office and the different episodes in the story are presented with exceptional convincingness and firmness of touch, while the whole, with the exception of a half column of repetition, is alive and vigorous.

In "The Misses Bentley's Telescope" the hero is engaged in preserving "a pleasing amatory equilibrism" at home, while developing a genuine love affair abroad. The device by which the author reaches his climaxes is of course farcial, but his climaxes are none the less climaxes, and the story moves toward them with amusing and unhalting life and go. Verses, College Kodaks, a short sketch by G. H. Scull and couple of forceful editorials pointing out to Freshmen "that the broad opportunties for good fellowship with the solid good men of their class cannot be taken advatage of too early, and that the way to take advantage of them is by activity," complete the issue.