Word: cynic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Thackeray a cynic...
There are certain aptitudes and tendencies which show themselves in everyone and will be developed by college. Let each student have an ideal, and be not discouraged by the words of any cynic. If you are true to your ideals you will be able to confront any difficulties and will in the end succeed...
...Sonnets: To Maude Adams in "The Bauble Shop;" The Cynic...
...College Kodaks have been supplanted by "Atrabilia. Being stray leaves from the note book of a cynic who reformed on attaining his majority." The change in the name is interesting, but the ten "stray leaves" do not show any marked improvement over the Kodaks. Though none of them attempt to be humorous, several are very pleasing. The other prose articles are "Aunt Mary," by G. B. Philbrook, and two sketches by H. B. Eddy; one of the latter being an unnecessary contribution to the literature of Adam...
Among the stories one of the most noticeable is Eugene Warner's "The Blessed Cynic," though it is not noticeable on account of its merit. It is not at all above the author's former work. a severe enough criticism in itself. The College Kodaks are not very good, the first is poor, the second is fair, the fifth is pointless, while the last is neither funny nor pleasing. A redeeming feature of the number is "The Picture That Was Turned Towards The Wall." It is a good story and is well told. "Berenice" is a peculiar story...