Word: novel
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...April Mopes; A Condensed Novel in Eight Spasms,' is an attempted parody on Howell's "April Hopes." It is lacking in wit and literary value, and descends to passages of more than questionable tastes. A few flashes of successful realism do not redeem it from a position far below the Advocate's former standard...
...Closing Scene of the Iliad," by William C. Lawton, will be of interest to all classical students. One of the most readable articles in the number is "Fictions in the Pulpit," by Agnes Repplier. The writer makes a strong protest against the extreme moralistic and didactic tone of modern novel. Professor Joseph H. Thayer contributes an admirable description of the noble life and work of the late President Theodore Dwight Woolsey...
...entitled to use the pole owned by R. G. Leavitt of Harvard, in the pole vaulting competition. The measurers were divided on the subject; but as two are a majority of three, their decision was that the Harvard man should lend his pole. The subject, being such a novel one, has been much canvassed in athletic circles during the past week, and the universal opinion seems to be that if a man takes his own private pole to a competition he is entitled to use it and not lend it to any other competitor who might want...
...concert promises to be especially interesting, as the programme will becomposed almost wholly of new pieces. Messrs. Taylor and Atkinson of the Glee club and Mr. Lewis have written college songs of unusual merit which will be sung then by the Glee club for the first time. A novel feature of the concert will be the introduction of the Guitar and Man delin Club, which, though several years old has not yet taken part in a Glee club concert. They will accompany the Glee club in the Spanish song "Estudiantina" and will undoubtedly add much to the effect...
...Hapgood discusses "Carlyle's Estimate of the Eighteenth Century." He does not agree with Carlyle that it was a "decrepit, death-sick era," when Addison, Defoe, Richardson founded the essay, the newspaper, the novel, when Burns, Goethe, Schiller were enriching poetry; when science was making enormous strides under the impulse of Franklin, Newton, Herschel. The writer concludes with a comparison of "Carlyle's harsh estimate" with "Mr. Lecky's admirable summary...