The Advocate.

Very seldom does a college paper contain an editorial more frank, timely and sensible than that in the present number of the Advocate. What it says is so true that it ought to be obvious to any thoughtful man; yet the subject with which it deals, the social side of college life, is so liable to misconception that it is a relief to hear it spoken of with such well directed candor.

The rest of the number is largely given up to stories, two of a light, not to say fantastic character, two of a more serious sort. Both the former are very good of their kind. "Pomath," by E. R. Little '04, is a whimsical combination of humor and wild invention. "The Mermaid and the Schooner Scud" is quite as funny, quite as well told, and if possible even more improbable. "At the End of Four Years," signed "Ezra Kidd," gives a new version of a rather common plot, with a technique and setting decidedly better than the common. A mistaken impression that each number must have its quota of verses doubtless led the Advocate to insert such a sonnet as an "August Afternoon on Gay Head."