Word: closer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...elegance. The dated-letter or journal-method of telling a story is a device which is beginning to pall on readers of modern fiction. It is too frequently a convenient loop-hole for writers who have not the talent, or else wish to avoid the trouble of describing the closer detail of the surroundings of the actions portrayed. We fear that the writer of this story has not quite successfully covered up this loop-hole-the traces of it are here and there still to be seen. On the whole, the incidents of the story are well narrated...
...There is not much to be said for "Anna Polanova" a story placed in the high life of St. Petersburg. There are enough larynxruffling gutterals in the name of the various "vitches" and "ovnas" to make a careless reader believe that it is a powerful Russian story, but a closer perusal will show that things are not always what they seem. It takes more than a few well-compounded consonants to make a good story Russian Turkish or Chinese. Some minor verses and book notices make up the rest of the number...
...Club concerning the projected race with Harvard College. He complains that the College boat clubs shows a disinclination to give financial support, and suggests the raising of a subscription in the university. The letter goes on to say; "It would be a great opportunity for drawing the two universities closer together, even though it is only through a boat club. I am sure nothing but good could result to us from having a more intimate connection with the university which represents all that is best in American culture. I am told that they have challenged our two universities so often...
...race for the class championship is closer this year than it has been for several years. No one team is pre-eminently better than its competitors. The result is that every class has won and lost an equal number of games, making the standing...
...course. It will be conducted by Professor Allen, and will be an introduction to the critical study of Homer; Professor Wright will give a course in Greek History (600-300 B. C.); it is numbered 12. There are other slight changes, which will appear on closer investigation than can be given here...