Word: manner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Ball." Mr. DeWolf, its author. has dealt in this particular bit of fiction with scenes and people widely different from those he delineated so well in his story "After Twenty Years," in the Advocate. The story which appears today is a student reminiscent sketch, depicting in a perfectly natural manner the abyss of mortification into which a particular seaside resort, a particular girl, and a particular masquerade ball plunged a certain college man. The plot is clever and well worked out and the language shows no inappropriate word or phrase...
...Atlantic Monthly's table of contents for April is unusually diversified. Of special interest to German students is Mr. William P. Andrews' article on "Goethe's Key to Faust." This paper, which is the first of a series, discusses in a learned but entertaining manner the mythological sources of the Faust legend and tells us that, in looking for the key to Faust, we are to go the poet himself, to the poet's life, and the poet's thought, for then we can come at the deeper significance hidden under all the seeming trivialities of the action...
...complaints about the conduct of men in the Library have just come to us. The first of these is that men make too much noise, talking aloud across the tables, and in other ways acting in a disturbing manner. Such men know well enough that the Library is not the place for loud talking; and nothing more than a word ought to be necessary to make them more careful in their behavious. Their actions have arisen from thoughtlessness more than than anything else. No such pardonable carelessness, however, can be attributed to the men who hide the reference books. These...
...every way as Aristotle's "Treatise on the Constitution of Athens." The first copies of this recently discovered manuscript reached this country about a week ago, and in one of his courses Professor W. W. Goodwin has spoken of the value of the manuscript in a very interesting manner...
...Institute of 1770. It is difficult to sum up the qualities of a man familiarity with whom is apt to blind the perception of those traits which would be apparent to a stranger. All those who knew Howell slightly will remember him first, probably, for his courteous manner and kind-hearted disposition. To those, and there are many, who knew him intimately there will be an ever growing realization of his honorable and manly character...