Word: details
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...DuBois, is out of the ordinary run, and after the writer once gets started, the story moves easily, needing no effort on the reader's part. "Sammie Bent's Stripes," by Frank Simonds, is nothing more than an anecdote, but it is well told, with perfect harmony of detail. "Hunting," by J. C. Grew, is a commendable attempt at word-painting. "Merton," by C. F. C. Arensberg, lacks pith and distinct purpose. It starts as a college story and finishes with two summer jilts. "My dug out," by Lyrian Alcis," has a very suitable rhythm, and sustains the writer...
...cups to be presented are of original design and very interesting in detail. Deeply engraved on the front of the cups is the name of the debate and the winner. A quartered Harvard shield is stamped on the top; but instead of the customary open book in the upper left hand corner is the name and date of the first debating organization at Harvard--"The Union" started in 1832. In the quarter diagonally below is the name and date of the "Forum" founded in 1893. A slightly raised band with the inscription "Harvard University Debating Club" encircles the shield...
...then examined in detail the first proposition of the affirmative, that to include Porto Rico within the customs boundary of the United States meant relief for the immediate economic needs of the island. "The United States has furnished foodstuffs cheaper than any country in the world, and can continue to do so, and we propose that the suffering, helpless Porto Ricans shall have them free of duty. But our plan means also cheap wearing apparel, cheap building material and cheap manufacturing material. To levy a duty upon these essentials of economic and social development would mean suffering to the already...
...series of sketches, "Summer Days," by A. P. Wadsworth '02, is done with much close attention to detail, but in spite of this, has a naturalness which prevents it from being tiresome or seeming forced. As a whole, the series is much better than such an effort generally is, on account of the ease with which its life like description moves. "At the House of the Countess," by F. Watson '02, is unusually well done, with the exception of the last part, which seems hasty, and makes one regret that the ending, however good in conception, was not better handled...
...circular requests each "officer of the University, old and young" to keep "During the month of March, 1900, a careful journal of his daily dings, recording faithfully, and in as much detail as he can, all that goes on from day to day, including his College work, his professional interests, his family relations, his amusements, in fact all the elements of his life. "Let him," says the circular, "imagine that he is writing without reserve to some friend at a distance who has been long absent from Cambridge, and who has lost touch with the ordinary current of life here...