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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard men who read "Behind the Curtain" in the Advocate last spring will note with interest its author's latest work in the December Monthly, entitled "The Coming Man in Fiction." It is a psychical study of the dominant hero of fiction as he will appear in the near future. The originality and the masculine strength of the English are as strongly marked as is the general incoherence of the whole sketch. What its author says of the future hero of fiction understands by life, "a sum of sensations, strained and attenuated to the last point of consciousness" - might well...
...Mozart centenary is the occasion of a paper by Mrs. Amelia Gere Mason, entitled "Mozart - After a Hundred Years," which is fully illustrated, and appeals to a very wide and general interest in music, it being the first of a number of articles of high character on music to appear in the Century during the coming year. Mrs. Gere draws an exquisite comparison between Burns and Mozart which every lover of poetry and music should read. Says Mrs. Gere: "The genius of these men was unlike, and they differed widely in character as well as education, but there...
...clubs were doing such a great work in the west as to influence people to come or send their boys to Harvard. But it must be acknowledged that this belief would be rather Utopian. A set of musical Harvard men giving concerts and being lionized, however agreeably they might appear, could hardly be expected to have much influence in the weighty matter of education. Probably the principal thing that the musical clubs do accomplish, besides having a very pleasant time, is to bring Harvard memories and associations back to the distant graduates. Obviously, then, the sensible plan...
...will represent their class are. though rather light, a very plucky set of men; and they ought to make an excellent showing against Yale. Their record of games won during the past season does not appear to be brilliant, but they have shown steady improvement, and are now doing creditable work with some team play. The great trouble is the lack of snap and the slowness which the rush-line show, and the fumbling of the backs...
...next issue of the CRIMSON will appear on Friday morning...