Both the prose and poetry in the last number of the Advocate are unusually good. "Over the Border," a story of the Civil War, by Ralph W. Page, contains rapid and vivid narrative and clear character drawing. The rather recklessly free handling of historical characters may be passed over unnoticed in the general interest of the story. "Told in the Telling," by Ezra Kidd, and "The Hunting Song," by L. B. Cummings, are also interesting.
"The Advocate Song," words by R. Inglis and music by F. M. Class, is good, no doubt, but of rather more interest to the Advocate editors than to its readers. "From Night Till Dawn," by R. P., "An Explanation," by Herbert C. Thorndike, and "Music," signed Hyde O'Haslie, are all good poems--simple and yet pointed, well placed and rhythmically pleasant.
The editorial is worth reading--and believing. In "College Kodaks" the Advocate editors have set themselves the hard task of commenting, lightly and yet with no obvious attempt at joking, upon the little happenings and phases of college life. For the excellence of the aim, one may easily pardon the treatment which has as yet been only partly satisfactory.
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