Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Following the policy pursued in recent years the greater part of the progress of the university is in the direction of the graduate school, and the increased opportunities offered are those of graduate work and special research. There are many reasons for this. The undergraduate department is more in a...
Two of the stories in the last Advocate show to a very marked degree the influence of those two masters of the art of writing short stories. Richard Harding Davis and Rudyard Kipling, The follower of Mr. Davis is R. T. French and the title of his story is "Lord...
...given to Gawain such a frivolous and even tricky character. It is certainly annoying to anyone who knows the old romance to see the noblest knight of the Round Table thus insulted. Tennyson could have been acquainted only with Malory's later prose version of the story, for his characterization of Gawain is identical with Malory's. But Malory's tale is entirely unlike the original romance. In all the early stories of Gawain, he is not the man that Malory and Tennyson have pictured him. He is an ideal knight, a champion of woman, a loyal subject of King...
When a man comes to Harvard and enrolls himself as a Harvard student, he takes upon himself the responsibility of keeping up the good name of the University. This is no empty or nominal responsibility, but an absolute command of honor that where a man is in any position to...
Every one, however, will be delighted by the story of "A Poor Millionaire," by Mary L. Adams, as charming a character sketch as one often sees.