Word: authors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...taken the place of the batch of daily themes. The practice of publishing these choice bits of literature is good, but five is too many for a paper of the size of the "Advocate." "A Fool's Revenge" is hardly a story, for there is no plot; but the author has taken a series of incidents, hackneyed by long use in college productions - a railroad train, a rescue, two falls and a young lady, with a handsome military hero and stupid rival - and has by clever arrangement made a very interesting sketch. The denouement is particularly happy...
...October, 1885, up to its final victory over the Yale and Columbia freshmen at New London last summer. It is brightly and amusingly written from beginning to end. Little incidents are told of each man on the crew, and each one is given his own peculiar nick-name. The author gives a very interesting account, to begin with, of the organization of the crew. To quote his own words: "Forty men, more or less, the 'pride and flower' of the class, assembled in the gymnasium, afternoon upon afternoon, with beating hearts and anxious faces. Lean men, short...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: At the request of Mr. E. P. Mason, '81, with whose kind permission we published in "Songs of Harvard" a serenade of which that gentleman is the author, we desire to state publicly that Mr. Mason is in no way responsible for the arrangement of his serenade as it appears in our book. As written by him, the song was arranged for mixed voices; its adaptation to male voices in "Songs of Harvard" is the work of the compilers of that book, and they are responsible for whatever inaccuracies in arrangement or in typography the song...
...students of Amherst will shortly have the "Chariot Race" from Ben Hur read to them by its author, Gen. Lew. Wallace...
...literature to be other than good, and, therefore those who would know English would do well to put themselves, as it were, by proxy, in the same favorable surroundings; let alone the mastery of technique - that can be gained from a study of such masters of style as the author of "Gringoire" (Booth, by the way, used to act a version of this play) - or of Bossuet - or of one of the writers not included in the readings Aside from this advantage there is the profit and the pleasure which new aspects bring to those who but rarely deign...