Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...praise of a book of very unusual value and importance. Of the undergraduate articles, the essay on "Clever Modern Fiction" shows good sense of proportion and some felicities of phrasing; that on "Johnson and Addison" is clear and sound. The story "Don Decarnez" has atmosphere, though the ending is abrupt. Of the two poems the little "Requiem" is compact, well phrased and fresh in thought...
Perhaps the best feature of the number is the verse, "Attila the Hun," which is admirable, with its rapid, abrupt wording. It is full of vitality, and is a relief after the usual descriptive efforts of College poetry. "The Palms of Memphis," by the same author, conveys its impression more quietly, but is nearly as vivid...
...moonlight scene which opens the second act is decidedly well executed, and the costumes of the leading characters were elaborate and appropriately pretty. In spite of delays and abrupt transitions the play as a whole is well up to the average of undergraduate theatricals...
...magazine under the old name of "The Collegian." This was the first journal in the form of a newspaper. Owing to a disrespectful allusion to the Faculty and an over regard for the motto of the paper "Dulce est Periculum," the career of "The Collegian" was brought to an abrupt end after the publication of three numbers. In May of the same year the first number of the "Advocate" appeared. It was founded by three Juniors of the class of '67, all of whom were former editors of the "Collegian." The motto of the paper was "Veritas nihil veretur." Notwithstanding...
...fall of Solness. It is incoherent and is, throughout, illogical, almost trivial. The crack in the wall, designedly neglected to cause the death of two children and destroy the happiness of half a dozen people, seems too small a peg on which to hang such tragic events. The abrupt and meaningless transition, in the scene between Hilda and Solness in the first act, from church steeples to the kingdom of youth, and back again, is worthy of the veriest tyro. But in the expression of subtle thoughts and emotions and in shades of feeling so delicate we cannot define them...