Word: flandran
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There short sketches fill out this number. "The importance of Being a Grind" by W. C. Greene, and its companion piece. "The Importance of Being a Sport," by H. E. Porter, remind us of one of the best Advocate periods,--some fifteen years ago, when Mr. Flandran and his contemporaries were describing Harvard Types." But with this difference today the dissecting of the victim seems kindlier; the sareasm almost genral...
...Henry Wood '92; "Richard the Third," by H. H. Furness '88; "Readings in Modern European History," Vol. I. by J. H. Robinson '87 and J. A. Beard: "The American Executive and Executive Methods," by J. H. Finley L.'71 and J. F. Sanderson; "Viva Mexico," by C. M. Flandran '95; "The Memoirs of a Failure," by D. W. Kittredge '02; "The Control of Public Utilities in the Form of an Annotation of the Public Service Commission's Law of the State of New York," by W. M. Ivins '01 and H. D. Mason...
...Flandran also appears as a writer of verse in two vigorous sonnets, both about athletes, for whom, in his latter work he has shown such a predilection. However, the story goes that the Advocate board in his day was fonder of crisp and witty prose and rather peppery editorials than of poetry, though it sometimes sat down--not without sarcastic comments--to grind out verses for the popular demand...
Colonel T. W. Higginson '41 has sent twenty-three volumes, mostly books of his own writing. Other graduates who have sent their works to the library are Judge Robert Grant '73. T. W. Balch '90, R. W. Hale '92, Charles Warren '89 C.M. Flandran '95, and James F. Rhodes h.'01, William E. Furness '06, of Chicago, has given sixty volumes, and Mr. R. C. Lehmann of London has given his book entitled "Anni Fugaces...