Word: mannerisms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Professor Muensterberg was one of the world's biggest men the greatest intellectual power in America and a man who towered high above the ordinary type of university professor in every manner...
...University as a whole. Since the men chosen at these elections represent the class for life, and inasmuch as the offices are the last reward and honor that any class may give to its most deserving members, college elections can hardly be conducted in the same manner as a political campaign...
...difficult vehicle of Scotch dialect. The movement of the story is uninterrupted, the episodes clearly drawn, and the dialect at once consistent and unobtrusive. The tale is better than Mr. Plummer's sketch of a cat which became ship's mascot. This unpromising subject is, however, handled in a manner which, if a trifle juvenile, is far from puerile. The way in which cross-eyed Mike "stared in royal disdain, his left eye terrifying the cats on his right and his right eye appalling those on his left" is amusing. The appreciation of Mr. Jones and "Till Eulenspiegel" seems competent...
...other characters are for the most part ludicrous in themselves, and the situations into which they are put are calculated to bring out their idiosyncrasies in the funniest manner. There is an alderman who "bosses" town and council and is in turn "bossed" by a Xantippian wife. There is a dapper young insurance agent who undertakes to get his friend out of trouble, and instead draws him into a mesh of complications. There is a group of aldermen typifying various stages of conservatism, churlishness and inebriation...
...dream. The author unfortunately at first sets an apparently older tone. There is entertainment also in Percival Reniers '16's article, "Speaking of Trifles," where his potpourri of forced daily themes resembles a theme corrector's nightmare. Of the prose pastels, "Charity" too obviously allies itself in subject and manner to Spoon River...