Word: dues
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...editorial in the current number of the Advocate which receives notice in another column is, as there stated, an attempt at an explanation of the failure of undergraduate literary work to attain a higher standard, by suggesting that it is due to lack of experiences which furnish live topics to write about. The writer says truly that experience is necessary, "for nothing is heeded which has not the ring of actual knowledge." He goes on to say that the college man exhausts his stock of college experiences in his Freshman and Sophomore years and then "grows stale...
While it may be true that the writers of today are not college-bred men, the statement that undergraduate literary work fails to attain a higher standard because the would-be writer "grows stale" seems open to doubt. Is not this failure rather due to a somewhat prevailing tendency among young writers to be ambitious to consider subjects which lie outside of their little life experiences, and to which they can at best impart but a supperficial atmosphere? To be concrete, college literature tends to be too ambitious. If the undergradate aspirant would narrow his point of view and condescend...
...regretted than the fact that fewer men will fall under his influence is, that on Professor Norton's giving up such large courses many will lose the opportunity of entering into more or less personal relationship with him. That this has been a privilege generally coveted is in measure due to his popularity among the students, and to the whole-souled interest he has always manifested in their welfare. Beyond this popularity, however, it is due to his recognition throughout the country as a sincere and fearless critic in both art and literature, which inevitably reflects great credit on Harvard...
...Copeland began his course on the English Novelists with a very interesting lecture on Samuel Richardson. Mr. Copeland compared Richardson to Fielding and pointed out that though neither of them could be considered as the beginner of the English novel, the credit of the new opening in literature was due to both of them. He spoke of three methods of writing a novel, the divine method, the reminiscent, and the letter writing method, and showed how Richardson had tried to combine the first two in the last, and how he had failed to make them lastingly interesting...
Contrary to custom the Senior Board of the CRIMSON has not this year retired at the mid-year election and left the reins of government to the Juniors, but will remain in charge until graduation. This step is due in part to the feeling that perhaps the paper could fill its place more effectively if the precedent were established of leaving it longer in the hands of its most efficient editors, and in part to the fact that the Board in general are of the opinion that there is really no practical reason why the Seniors should retire. Having undertaken...