Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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As a literary production, it has not much merit. There is little method and the art is rough. It paints vividly any grotesque character, but fails at the quiet or gentle. It has no cohereucr, and no consummation, - like many pictures arranged by mere chance.
SOON after the close of the Christmas recess the theatre services on Sunday evenings will begin again, and such Harvard students who are willing to assist in them are asked to do so this year. Last year the support was not what it might have been; there was only a...
No people, said he, have been so low in social conditions that they have not felt the need of some expression of the peculiar temper of their age. Even in the midst of the British invasions upon England, the harp and song accompanied and perpetuated the deeds of these rough...
The peculiar merits of the Celtic character were the quick eye, the responsive mind and the sensitive soul. They were naturally gifted with a light and airy temper. It made them appreciate the beauties of nature to a wonderful degree, and gave them their exquisite sense of a fine expression...
"The same tendency predominates in the verse of the Harvard Advocate; prose articles are of a less serious character. Both papers, however, too often permit the overcrowding of large ideas to produce a strained effect, or obscure the clear sense of the thought. Sometimes the intense degenerates into the absurd...