Word: girls
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...poet, Mr. Maurice Thompson, is not however, so well known here. Mr. Thompson is a western man. residing now in Indiana, but he received his education in the South. He is both poet and novelist. His best known works are "A Tallahassae Girl" and "His Second Campaign," while his best poems are "Hoosier Mozaics," The Witchery of Archery." and "Songs of Fair Weather" Mr. Thompson is a frequent contributor to the magazines and has firmly established his reputation as a writer of stirring verse...
...Canada, by Mrs. Katherine White. We are glad to see that "Harry's Career at Yale" has but one more number to run. This installment is an account of the "Junior Prom" and Harry's engagement. It is very touching - "those moments of first, sweet love, - when your girl yields at last." There are two or three short sporting articles, "A Day with Quail in North Carolina," "A Blank Day," and others. They are good though the latter is spoilt by too many love affairs. There is an article on "Cross Country Running" by John Corbin. It is cleverly written...
...Puritan time, the boy, the girl, the mother and the father, came to prayer each night as they had done in the morning. Is it not clear that if we could make a town, a state, a nation begin each day in this way and with the purpose to glorify God, that it could achieve impossibilities...
...remember to have seen. The stories in it are exactly what they should be and are excellent in their way. The first one, "The Awakening of Hargrave" is an interesting thing and well written. It is immensely improbable; in truth, when the heroine is supposed to be a Boston girl, it is absolutely impossible - but that makes it none the less entertaining. Hargraves, it must be admitted, are not everyday occurences at Harvard; we may do the same things but certainly on a smaller scale - for it would be more than slightly annoying to some of us to lose five...
...apparently a story with occasional suggestions of a plot but in reality it is a discussion, chiefly religious, which ends with a sermon. There are two characters in it-one a minister-that would do good to the heart of a lover of complexity; the other a New York girl who thinks. The story is full of ideas but they are not well arranged and the ending is unsatisfactory...