Word: grimness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...points a moral which, with modifications, may be safely commended to Freshmen. There is a good conception, likewise in the drawing of "The Pioneers," greeting the rising sun of the new administration; and the movement of the silhouetted figures is excellent. The frontispiece by Williams '11 has a certain grim humor. The tail-piece is charming. As a whole, the number is conscientious; but unlike the gentleman on the cover, we have not split our sides laughing...
...historical scholarship. The Advocate hopes to see justice done Poe when the Puritan shall have passed--but why shall not justice be done him now? In fact there is a suggestion of Poe in "The Cat and the Mouse"--an effective story, with some thing of Poe's grim despair and situations full of horror; the tone is different from Poe's, but a result like his is gained. In "Will Ellis" a situation is described in which a tragedy is inevitable--the passionate protest of an ignorant mountaineer against the invasion of his domain by a railway; the tragedy...
...would do very well to have something of the sort here, which would give the student a sympathetic friend, not too old, to make his work more a part of his life. "The Purple Patch," set effectively during a water-fete at Marseilles, is a story of no little grim strength relieved by an eerie humor which is very effective. The twisted old grandfather might have stepped from one of Arthur Rackham's weird drawings...
Little can be said for the CRIMSON team except that it failed to show its usual brilliant form. The ice was much littered up with prostrate ha-ha boys who, falling, held on like grim death to the nearest skater. This, together with the fact that the Lampoons were more accustomed to the glare of the lamp lights, disconcerted the CRIMSON skaters with the aforementioned result. The puck escaped injury...
...Stone '07 compared the prospects of Harvard and Yale for the dual meet and expressed his fear that the University team would be over-confident, a great danger to any team. The meet can be won only by good, persistent training, consistent work, and a grim resolve...