With the current number of the Advocate the retiring Senior board hands over the paper to the class of 1902. In the article. "An Apology for Stories," the present number departs distinctly from the beaten track. The "Apology" takes up briefly and concisely the questions of college literary productions, and undertakes to account for their failure truly to depict college literary productions, and undertakes to account for their failure truly to depict college life, or, in the words of the writer, "to discover why college stories are not better than they are." In the closing words of this article, the field of the Advocate is well defined by its comparison with the other College publications: "The pages of the CRIMSON," the writer says, "are interesting as a literal record of facts that concern us; the pages of the Lampoon, as a warped reflection of such facts, as satire, which, though often crude, is based on fact. The Advocate has a more difficult role to perform; avoiding literalness on the one hand and exaggeration on the other, it must utilize this same material of fact and make it interesting."

Of the five stories in this number, two have to do directly with College life and in many ways are more satisfactory than those in which the scenes are laid out side the student world. "Enough for Reggy," especially, comes very near being the sort of story, the lack of which is deplored in the "Apology for Stories."

The number contains three poems: A sonnet; a somewhat longer poem called "The Death Chant of the Viking"; and a short bit of literary appreciation--"On a Little Verse." The remaining contributions are: "His Letter," by R. W. Ruhl; "The Young Lady," by G. C. St. John; "Dan Dan'lson of the Yadkin Valley," by R. W. Page; and "The Unbeaten Path," by R. W. Child.