Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college papers have hitherto avoided as though by a better instinct, would be left to the treatment of master hands only. They might possibly be expected to show this episode in a new light. The melodramatic dens ex machina in the shape of a "golden star" is a bit wearying...
...Music" is a pretty little love ditty clothed in jingling, rhythmical lines. "Through the Twilight" is a charming bit of verse, which, like most of his work, is a credit to its author. It is hard to discriminate when all the stanzas are so good, and want of space forbids us to quote the poem in toto. This excellent number closes with an editorial and book-notices. Mr. James Schouler will contribute the opening article-"Andrew Jackson, Doctor of Laws"-to the February number...
...Advocate appeared yesterday afternoon, and contains much good reading matter. The editorials are bright and forcible as usual. "A Mexican Village" is a fair bit of description of the placid life in the growing state of our neighbors. "John Bryant's Ride" is an unusually well written story. In a few lines a situation is very forcibly drawn. There is not a sentence nor a word too much; the movement of the story shows great vigor. "An Automaton" is a very remarkable study and deserves a careful perusal and thoughtful consideration. It is with no mean descriptive talent that...
...Banjo Club opened Part II. of the programme with the Armanini waltz, which called forth an encore. The club is an addition to the "popularizing element" in these concerts. The "Little Tycoon Waltz" is a very pretty bit of music and won its hearty encore. The "Bill of Fare," a quartette by Messrs. Honore, Shippen, Howard and Willard, was the hit of the evening, and was very drolly sung...
...November Afternoon," the first article of the number, is an admirable bit of verse and shows a powerful imagination in the writer. There is something weird about the poem, which tends to make it all the more attractive. This is, I believe, the first bit of verse which the writer has ever published in the Advocate...