Word: enough
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...most decadent of the decadents. Chesterton is a force for manliness and for righteousness; such was not the most typical of the decadents, Oscar Wilde. Of the stories, "The Treasure Voyage" by E. G. Curtis '09 and "The Difference" by E. B. Sheldon '08, it is enough to say that the first shows far more definite attempt at plot and the second more vigorous character drawing than one is accustomed to find in undergraduate productions...
...little of the fascination of the school of Rossetti. Both show imagination, the second especially has some excellent lines. "The Song of the Revolutionist" by A. Davis '07 has a good galloping rhythm, and "O I'll be there at the Merrymaking" by R. J. Walsh '07 has enough human tenderness to make us forget the time-worn theme...
Since the Christmas recess the University team has been steadily improving in team play, speed, and stick work; but it has not had enough opportunity to practice and to develop the game that its members are capable of. The forwards in the game with Springfield on Wednesday showed a tendency at times to be wild in shooting and to start far too slowly. The playing, however, of the ends and the point in this game was very encouraging. As yet the defense has not had a real test, for all the teams that have been played so far have shown...
...story would be improved by a little more reasonableness of action--not reason; far be that from Boola Ban! Even foolishness, however, has its foolish laws, and there is a kind of absurd orderliness in nonsense. In the story "Getting Agnes," by J. L. Warren '08, there is not enough drawing of character to make one willing to forgive the commonplaceness of the theme. Perhaps it is the attitude of the pedagogue that prejudices me in favor of the Professor, who is not as absurd as he should be to make me sympathize with the decorative Junior. "The Derelict...
...unnaturally, one interested in undergraduate writing is inclined to ask, why should not the average undergraduate story be better than it usually is? Perhaps the writers do not take the matter quite seriously enough; they are too apt to regard their stories simply as a means to the pleasures of social life on the Board, not as steps toward a more truly literary expression. The works show haste, carelessness, and a willingness to be content with a product far short of that of which they are capable. And may it not also be asked. do those who write about college...