Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...chiefly to be condemned for an entire lack of originality; but this fault is perhaps more excusable than many others which are generally forced on the notice of the reader. The only serious mistake can unfortunately be laid to the charge of no one in particular; but the unknown author of "A Poet" is sadly in error when, in his vain struggle to write verse, he says, "My words my servants are." To make this in any way credible, it would have to be added that they serve him but poorly...
Several of the prose articles deserve more notice than it is possible to give them here. The "Paper" Sport is as good a "Harvard Type" as the Advocate has yet introduced; and the "Law Breaker," which follows, contains some uncommonly vivid word painting. Its author, Philip Richards, gives an excellent description of the novel feelings which the hero experiences on his first introduction to a gambling hell. In marked contrast are "Merely Players," and "Applied Science," the articles already indefinitely referred to as lacking in originality...
...more interesting the more commonplace it becomes. Few would not take more pleasure in following the fairly easy rhyming and rythm of P. L. Shaw's piece, "The Burial of Alaric," than in separating the idea of Eugene Warner's "Loneliness," from the confusion of words in which the author has clothed...
Among the prose articles, "For Unknown Reasons," by Arthur S. Pier, is a very clever little piece, describing with the neccssary amount of life the devotion of five brothers to the belle of a country village, and their final amusing dismissal. The author has taken advantage of the fact that little touches of nature are what please the reader who reads for entertainment. In the same way the third of "Three Sketches," and "In the One Room," both telling stories of real life which can appeal to the hearer, are interesting and pleasing. The author of this last is John...
...book on athletics has just been published by the Century Company, called "Walter Camp's Book of College Sports." In selecting the branches of sport which he should cover, the author has taken those in which coaching has been most generally demanded and which make up the main body of our college sports, namely, Track Athletics, Rowing, Football and Baseball. These subjects he has treated in a clear and easy style, aiming to give that instruction as to best methods of training teams and actual performances in the sports which his wide experience and observation fits him so well...