Word: authorities
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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...
...Rational," by John Cummings, in its general tendency reminds us of the article just under discussion, although lacking the unquestionable virility of diction of the latter. The author lets his thoughts carry him into the clouds, metaphorically and specifically speaking, and indulges in more or less dithyrambic philosophizing, which, while wanting the syllogistic method of deductive reasoning, is at least interesting. The title does not connote the substance of the article...
...best thing in the Monthly is Mr. Moody's poem "Angelle." The work of its author has been of a constantly progressive nature, and when it is considered that the first verse which its author published two years ago was very good, the extreme excellence of the poem of which we now speak is inferentially acknowledged. "Angelle" is a fairly long poem, and yet so well is the interest of the narrative sustained, so exquisite is the diction in places, that one cannot help but read it through after he has once begun it and read it through with...
...when one of their number has an article in one of the magazines; and certainly the article on "Brunswick and Bowdoin College" in the New England Magazine for December from the pen of Charles Lewis Slattery of last year's senior class reflects credit not only upon the author himself but also upon his Alma Mater. Mr. Slattery has taken old Bowdoin College and Brunswick, as he knows them in their historical past and, with skillful touches has given us vivid pictures of the old town and the famous men who have brought credit upon the college, - Longfellow, Hawthorne, President...
...author of the communication in another column seems to us to miss the real point of the proposed joint debate between Harvard and Yale. It is not necessary in a debate that there be a formal decision in order to get all the advantages of a decision. A formal decision would really settle nothing. Every listener must inevitably decide in his own mind as to the merits, of the debaters and no ruling of judges could affect that decision. A formal decision could only add an unpleasant feature to the joint debate wishout bringing any distinct gain. Even what emphasis...