Word: heros
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Christmas Advocate encloses a varied collection of stories and verses. "The Tangled Web that Allen Wove," by W. N. Seaver sets forth the dire results which inevitably follow a deviation from the path of truth. It cannot be denied that the author has contrived for the punishment of his hero a complication of exquisite tortures,--which are physical rather than moral. The story has little of the college atmosphere, however, and the six pages required to disentangle Allan might well be reduced to four. "Before the Engynes Came Through," by R. W. Page is a short dialect sketch without much...
...Henry Bourland: The Passing of the Cavalier," a novel by Albert E> Hancock, Ph.D., '97, will be issued during the coming spring by the Macmillan Company. The book deals with the life of the Southern aristocracy, during the reconstruction period which followed the Civil War. The hero, a young Virginia planter of Bourbon stock, enlists in the Confederate army, and after the surrender at Appomattox returns home, still unbeaten in spirit, with the hope of restoring the fortunes of his house. The author, though a northerner always takes the point of view of the southern cavalier, and thus presents...
...Holmes '02, as "Antonio," the hero and lover of the play, takes the principal part with great success. As an enterprising lower and brave swordsman his earnestness of manner is very natural and pleasing. The part of "Bustopha," one of the funniest of Fletcher's creations, is taken by J. G. Brackett '01 in an exceptionally entertaining manner. In the female roles, W. C. Arensberg '00 makes a serious and charming "Ismenia." Femininity--a somewhat impossible trait perhaps--is slightly lacking in the other female characters...
...French critic of note, of "a will which is strongly deemed to have the willing power, but which is powerless to furnish itself with motive for the deed." In speaking of the New Testament, John Ruskin has said what may be well applied to the death of the hero of the play, that the most soul-stirring picture drawn by the Savior is the terrible condemnation of the rejected,--not of the evil doers, but of those who have failed to do good...
...very good indeed. It is carefully planned and well written. But it is not convincing. "Tom's Wife," is a New England dialect yarn of good local color. "In Search of the Conventional," by J. G. Cole sC., is a tale in which the writer attains that which his hero seeks. "Where Poetry Fails," is a very pleasant idyllic sketch, and "Bradford," by Richard Inglis '03, harks back to home-sick Freshman days...