Word: news
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...younger than himself, to hang from a post, head down, in a torturing position in order that he may have a model for the masterpiece which he is painting. This torture naturally kills the boy by degrees, although the end does not come till Mathieu comes home with the news that he has won the medaille d'honneur. The story as a whole suggests Guy de Maupassant. Although the idea of the tale is rather extravigant, vet it is well-worked out and the diction is more coherent than in some of its author's last efforts...
...following appeared in the Yale News for Wednesday last...
...AVERY GOULD.No editorial comment is made in the News upon the action of Mr. Gould and the reasons for his resignation are not publicly known. Mr. Gould is in Ninety-two of the Sheffield Scientific School. He stroked last year's Yale crew, it being his first year in the 'varsity boat...
...University of Toronto, a journal devoted to "Literature, University Thoughts and Events," makes the following literary criticism of the daily papers of Harvard and Cornell: "These are purely newspapers; they make no pretense of giving anything of a literary character, but content themselves with reporting the college news. The editorials are fresh and crisp, and the whole papers give a splendid evidence of the enterprise and get-up-and-get of the students of these big schools...
...whole, unusually good the final selection of the crew will be a matter of more than ordinary difficulty, and will therefore be postponed till late in the season. The list of candidates now includes ractically all the men who expect to try for the team. The Yale News gives the following list of the men with their weights...