| Show I IN THE r 1 HE COLLEGE j i Exchanges We extend our oun thanks and appreciation tion to the editors of the Wellesley Magazine for putting us upon their exchange list and for sending us back numbers of their excellent publication It is certainly a credit to them both bothin in mechanical make up and contents The prose articles are universally well written and the verse is very good and there is considerable of it In the October number appear many articles written by graduates which show that although they have left school still they are loyal to their alma mater and andare andare andare are interested in all her undertakings The first article is is' isa a comparison of the characters of Macbeth and the hero of Das- Das great Russian realistic novel II Crime and Punishment The treatment of the subject shows a thorough knowledge and a deep study of the character of both men and the theline line of thought which is taken taken up in comparing is a Study of their likenesses likenesses likenesses like like- nesses and differences as results of circumstances and of natural and in inborn inborn inborn in- in born characteristics characteristics also also the result of their crime upon each In the lighter articles a story II Class Day at is well written and is by far the best The November number contains a history history history his his- tory of the II Literary Almanac of Wellesley Wellesley Wellesley Wel Wel- lesley and several creditable stories all of a sad strain The December issue contains contain's many admirably written stories the best of which are II The Browning Enthusiast a love story written in a light and airy style and II Using her Influence I a short sketch after the style of Josiah Allens Allen's wife and the great virtues of patience forbearance and tion Of the essays II The Friendship of the Greeks and a II Study of Realism Realism Realism Real Real- ism in T ranks highest and v are deserving of of- mention In the January number we are startled by the heading The Decadence of the Republican Republican Re Re- publican Party but we Wf are pleased to find all assertions to the contrary notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding not not- withstanding that girls do take an int interest rest in politics and enough interest to thoroughly study them and write an intelligent article of over nine pages es upon what was formerly considered a subject fit only for a a. a man Good essays on The Music of Twelfth Night the Parsons Twins and II Bootes are are also also articles worthy of mention The editorials are very g good od and the department known as the II Free Press is quite interesting For this department department department depart depart- ment different students contribute voicing their praise or censure of different existing conditions around the college The paper gives notices of the different college societies and keeps a record as near as possible of the alumnae of its alma mater We clip the following as examples cf Wellesley verse A Romance I I. I She was a college graduate a modest little maid Appearing at her first great ball in simple white arr arrayed So blissfully unconscious of the whispers all around Which spread her reputation for a learning quite pro pro- found In struck awe-struck tones they told of how she had been taught to speak In French Italian German Saxon Anglo-Saxon Latin Greek So in the room ball-room corner all alone she sat in state For the young men fled in terror from the college grad grad- II He was a nice nice young joung fellow with a homely honest fact face facer Who claimed to dance though not in truth a paragon of grace Who was too gallant to idly hang about the room ball-room door If only half the ladies there were waltzing on the floor But he was not yet an adept in the art of being bright And he had a knack of saying just the thing that was not right So the belles h he had engaged to dance were not ot disposed to wait And he found his only partner was the coll college ge graduate III in They might have talked o of Plato and the work which he began Or discussed the evolution of the animal called man They might have joined in M. M A Aurelius relius Antoninus' Antoninus praise Or labored through some other topic known to student days But though these highly interesting subjects were not not tried And not a wise nor witty thing was said on either side Yet often since that evening he has blessed the kindly fate Through which his only partner was the college graduate C. C. C E. E G. G 92 See Century Dictionary |
