The Advocate.

There are seven articles in this number of the Advocate besides an editorial and three mediocre daily themes.

The editorial shows a poor appreciation of the merits of the Faculty's policy with regard to student theatricals. It is curious to put student comic opera in the same class with the plays of Ben Johnson and Racine.

The two pieces of verse are "Love Came and Went" and "Home Coming." The former is by Maxwell Savage '99; modesty or some other motive has prevented the author from signing the latter, which is very long.

"The Rise of Chesser," by C. S. Harper 1901, is the only real story of the number and is well worth reading. It tells of a young lawyer in New York who marries a silly pink-shirted type-writer before he comes to be the great Chesser and is sorry that he has done so afterwards. The other sketches are "Through the Storm" by J. A. Macy '99, a timely "Recollection of a Sea Fight" by G. D. Marvin '99, and "Blessed are the Poor" by A. G. Fuller 1900. This last tells prettily of a poor man's proposal to a rich girl.

The first editor of the Advocate, W. G. Peckham '67, contributes an essay on "Frederick W. Loring."