Word: minore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock Professor Murdock will speak in Harvard 2 on "Minor American Prose Writers 1870-1920." Here again is a subject which touches directly the experience of practically every present day American student. Few indeed will find that among the authors discussed by Professor Murdock there are none who formerly featured in their own reading of the works of the month or the day. As contemporary criticism is dangerous and liable to error, so it is also fascinating and extremely provocative of dispute. The Vagabond is very anxious to hear what Professor Murdock has to say of the favorites...
Throughout the novel the reader expects Bernard to do something. To the very end there is a feeling that it is a long prologue on a fully set stage. The characters are introduced, the minor ones involve themselves in minor episodes, but nothing much ever happens to the hero. One love-affair fizzles out, another is aborted, but these are merely by the way. When at last the formidable grandfather dies, Bernard has been in the rut too long and has forgotten his dreams. The cloth-mills are the inevitable, the Fates, to Bernard Quesnay. Their prosperity, strikes, slumps, trade...
...University minor sports teams were victorious, and two went down to defeat before their opponents on Saturday. The two former were the polo team which defeated Dedham, 6 to 3, and the lacrosse twelve which crushed Dartmouth with a 9 to 2 score. The tennis team was defeated 8 to 1, at the hands of Williams, and the golfers were worsted 7 to 2 by the University of Pennsylvania...
...Venetia marries Young Raphael, who is by this time reconciled with his father; Saville and Ysabel are living in Paris, and all the minor characters have conveniently died off. Venetia has always known that she would marry Young Raphael--so has the reader--but the interest is kept up till the end, as the characters at times become so involved with one another--that it takes a long time and even an extra paragraph...
...Crimson minor sports team was victorious yesterday afternoon while another seemed on the way to a win when the contest was called on account of rain. The University golfers downed Union 5 to 1 while the tennis team was ahead 2 to 0 in its clash with M. I. T. when the deluge, which descended last yesterday afternoon, drenched the courts and made it impossible for the other players to finish their matches...