Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Some Aspects of Matthew Arnold," by H. L. Warner, shows a remarkable maturity of method and fine critical insight. The value in criticism of a criticism, however, might be questioned. A one act play, "The Ingrate," had better been a story. As it is the excessive detail and labelling of characters detract from the effectiveness of the incident. The ending just misses being of exceptional power. "Everyman," by Laird Bell is an uncommonly sane judgment of the play of that name...
...this arrangement of events will involve many changes of detail, and will suggest others with which your Committee have not felt called upon to deal, they recommend that their general plan be adopted and that matters of detail be referred to the Executive Committee of the Alumni, so far as it is in the power of the Alumni to deal with them, or to such other body representing the Alumni as the Association may select...
...occasional poems, five in number, are greatly superior to the others, showing care for detail and more ease and polish in the verification. The author's ideas are good and plentiful but unfortunately seem frequently to run away with the language they are couched in. For example, this bit from "Uncertainty," an otherwise serious bit of work...
...Junior Republic Association, spoke last Saturday evening in the vestry of the First Parish Church, on the work of the Republic. The Republic, he said, is not a scheme of the imagination, but a practical institution, whose success has already been demonstrated. Mr. Osborne went on to describe in detail the workings of this unique settlement in Freeville, N. Y. Here about one hundred boys and girls, drawn from all classes of society, have been constituted into a juvenile republic, making their own laws, having their own courts, carrying on their own industries--in fact, performing almost all the functions...
...report in greater detail will be printed in the December number of the Graduates Magazine...