Word: novelist
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...unpleasant groups of (let us hope) fictitious undergraduates that can be met with in College fiction. As a sketch of types of character, it suffers from the mistake common in stories in the College magazines--that of attempting to describe in half a dozen pages people whom a skilled novelist would require a volume to make real. There are appreciative reviews of Professor C. E. Norton's new book on Longfellow and Mr. Underwood's volume on gardens. The editorial on the lectures in the Union is well written and to the point. The fullpage drawing is not good...
...novelists, however, have spread a very wrong impression of French life, by depicting almost exclusively the seamy side of society. In reality, the standard of home and personal morality in France is high. By treating sensational subjects the novelist endeavors to furnish relaxation, and generally tries to work out the problem of how a normal human being, placed in a very conventional society, will resist the temptation to follow his personal inclinations. The intellectual candor of the French leads them to discuss this problem openly, whereas our writers generally ignore...
...Russian socialistic movement, which, of all political events of the nineteenth century is most closely connected with the French Revolution of 1848, Professor Milyoukov explained the theories and influence of three great leaders of that period--Herzen, the powerful writer and deep thinker, his impulsive friend Bakoonin, and the novelist Tourguenev. Herzen, an aristocrat by birth, but later a "repentant nobleman," ashamed of his own high position, maintained the attitude of the early nihilists. He sympathized with those independents who could not take for their own the worn out moralities, laws, customs and traditions of a long-established society...
...speak upon some topic of current interest. On March 25, Mr. J. Geddes '80, Professor of Romance Languages in Boston University, will speak on "La Actividad Literaria Reciente en Espana," and on April 15, F. W. Morrison '00, instructor in Spanish and French, will give an address on "The Novelist Valdes." These three addresses will be in Spanish. On May 6, A. P. Raggio 3G., will give a reading from the works of the Spanish poet and statesman Campoamar...
...Lecture, M. Kipling as a Writer of Short Stories, as a Novelist, and as a Poet. Mr. Copeland. Sever...