Word: essay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Minister and the Child" is different from anything that has appeared in the Advocate for some time. It is no light story, it is not a criticism or an essay. It is a description of a man who is not in sympathy with life; in whose nature there is something wanting to complete his existence. There is an unsatisfied craving for a feeling he has never known. And now an event comes into his life which shows him what is lacking, and fills the void. He is a changed man; he has a new life, not that existence he knew...
...Yale "Lit" medal has been given to Herbert Augustin Smith, of the senior class, for his essay on "University Life." The competition for the prize has been poor of late and it has not been awarded since it was given to Pierson...
...Hofmann boy will make his first appearance as a conductor in New York on Saturday night, when he will direct the performance of his "Polonaise Americaine," his first essay at orchestral writing...
...first article, "Integers and Fractions" is an excellent little essay in which the writer takes the ground that mankind is divided into two classes-the integers, those who look upon life in a manly earnest way, following out their allotted path with simple faith in their own power to do their duty; and the fractions, those who pursue one idea with such enthusiasm that they become bound up in it, forgetting that there are other aims and aspirations and duties in life beyond that one idea. The writer calls those who burst their bonds and try to fill a sphere...
...Walt Whitman and his Philosophy" is decidedly, with the exception of the last mentioned, the most interesting essay in the number. It was for some time the fashion to bring up young men either to consider Walt Whitman as a harmless crank or not to consider him at all. Lately, as we all know, public interest has been aroused in the man, and then, naturally, in his poetry. It seems to me that the writer is a little too enthusiastic over his subject; that a poet whose work requires such a deliberate course of study and investigation before...