The Advocate.

The Advocate which appeared yesterday announces the election of C. M. Flandreau '95, as president of the board of editors for the coming year, with J. A. Gade '96, as secretary. With the change of officers, the editorials have taken on a tone of considerable sarcasm, indulged first at the expense of the Monthly and then at that of the college press in general. The Monthly has offended by its recent defense of English C; the college press by its heedlessly incorrect portrayal of college life. The expressions, "class feeling" and "true Harvard spirit" have, it seems been used to describe "states of consciousness" which do not exist. Ninety-five is therefore urged to give some tangible meaning to the obnoxious words by attending the class dinner as members of "a great class in an enlightened University."

Following the editorials is an interesting suggestion from Professor de Sumichrast for a "Varsity Day" in the fall. The idea is to substitute for the reception to new members some more impressive meeting. It will be best explained in Professor de Sumichrast's own words:

"Why should not 'Varsity Day bring together in Sanders Theatre the senior, junior and sophomore classes, seated together under the presidency of their officers, the faculty in a body, the representatives of the Corporation and Overseers, and finally the new-comers, graduates, Law School men, college freshmen, entering and seeing at a glance in the great assemblage something of what Harvard is? Then, as this year, representative students on the platform to speak as they only can speak to other students. Would not such a ceremony be one long remembered by the new arrivals? Would it not give the younger among them, especially, a truer understanding of the fact that they have become members of a University which is not all architecture, advisers, and athletics?"

There are several good pieces of fiction in the number. "An Unconventional Detective Story," by L. W. Mott and Louis How, and "Pot Boiling," by H. C. Greene, are amusingly written and have the additional merit of originality. In this respect alone are they superior to E. G. Knoblauch's "Even in Cambridge." Several of the Kodaks are pleasing, but the few other articles are unimportant if not uninteresting.