Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Dean Briggs has an article in the March Atlantic on the Transition from School to College in which he discusses the transition in personal character, broadly speaking, from youth to manhood, which the average Freshman undergoes. The average Freshman is considered as having "an ill-seasoned body, a half-trained...
To meet this strain the boy must in some way be prepared; the school and the college must co-operate to lessen the violence of the transition. The main object of both school and college is the same-to establish character and to make that character more efficient through knowledge...
One of the great faults of the Glee Club in the past has been a lack of new music. The songs in the Harvard Song Book, together with a few old standbys, were sung repeatedly until they became tiresome. Now the policy has been changed, and a number of new...
A part from one or two inconsistencies both story and dialect of "Uncle Willis Skimpy and the Cotton Bale," by T. N. Buckingham are carefully and well worked out. To the Southern reader, however, the use of Satan in dialect so marked as Uncle Willis's seems an unpardonable solecism...
Peer Gynt, an indolent, boastful Norwegian, indulged in youth by his mother, Aasse, leads a wild, roistering life. The element of irresponsibility and self-satisfaction in his character dominates the entire plot. Compelled to flee from the scene of his wild career, he takes refuges with the mountain trolls, but...