Word: hen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...following will be taught in Cambridge. They are certainly useful and yet they will not unduly strain the student's mind if he is careful of himself during the summer: Economics 303, or Advanced Muckraking; Geology 93, or the Geological Significance of the Egg of the Domestic Hen; Comme II Faut 17b, or the study of Male Headgear, Civilian and Military...
...manner is as modern as the matter. Mr. Thayer tells the story of the tubercular concierge with exactness of tone and economy of material. One is tempted to say that there is not a word too much. The judicious use of such recurring details as the companionable hen and Fraeulein Goldschmidt's "It would not have happened in Germany" give the impression of skill and sureness of touch. Indeed, the author achieves the seemingly impossible in telling the story in the first person and still keeping it detached...
...keeps the title of the original piece and the first appeal of her "Chantecler", as indeed it was of Rostand's, is to the eye and to the sense of the fantastic, the unusual, the surprising, behind it. The little yellow chicks are amusing to see; so is the hen putting her head out of the basket to utter wise saws; while the retriever snuffing over the wall and the mongrel dog pawing and growling in his straw are sure to please as quickly and generally as they did last evening. So, too, with the rabbits in the woods...