Word: fiction
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...avoiding plenty of chances to decorate the phrasing. "A Shell Found Inland" proved a truly poetic find for J. G. Gilkey, who would have done better, nevertheless, to tell of it in two stanzas rather than in three. The rest of the verse and all of the fiction, save for passages here and there, have already been noticed at the beginning of this review...
...Social Service Committee of the Phillips Brooks Association will hold the annual clothing collection and book canvas on Friday and Saturday, June 4 and 5. Clothing of all sorts, magazines, books of fiction and college text books are desired. Every one is requested to save these articles for the collectors who will be appointed, one for each dormitory, this week. Men living in private houses and men wishing to contribute after June 5 are asked to send postals to H. F. Wetzel, Westmorly...
...Materials and Methods of Fiction," C. Hamilton...
...piece of fiction and three book-notices, with the editorial, complete the issue. The story is a lively picture of the revolt against compulsory College Commons in 1806, and is readable, if not entirely convincing. The editorial gives a friendly welcome to the new President, and the reviews are appreciative notices of books by Professor Royce, Professor Minot, and Mr. W. P. Eaton...
...Advocate this week is made up of a half-dozen pieces of fiction and as many experiments in verse. The stories, with one exception, are of men and things out of doors--by-products, perhaps, of vacation; one is told by a stagedriver, one by a guide, and one is a trapper's tale of long ago. The first two are "bear stories," and do not belie their kind. Rude men, of uncouth speech spiced with damns and tobacco juice; tell of beasts of fabulous dimensions and behavior, without fear of the "malleus naturfakerorum." Like other patterns for stories, this...