Word: novels
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...signs of the times predict," and "Capital punishment." The work of all the southern papers is crude by northern standards, excepting always the Virginia University Magazine, but their tone is one of intense seriousness, strongly in contrast with the flippancy of some of their northern brethren. For something entirely novel and original, however, one must look to the West, to the so-called seats of learning that have sprung up with such appaling rapidity where lately the majestic red-skin roamed. Every month there come, with a whoop as it were, various ultra-western publications of a most startling appearance...
...Allow me to say a word about the way that the English Department has managed the junior themes. The first junior theme was a criticism. Last year the instructor of sophomore rhetoric in his lectures on criticism laid great stress on the necestity of giving an outline of the novel or article which was to be criticised. This fall the instructor who lectured on junior themes again emphasised the need of such an arrangement in a really good criticism. Almost every junior in writing his first theme this year followed this advice and wrote a synopsis of the work criticised...
...report was copied all over the country. In the papers of New York statements were made that several men had been severely injured. It is this very spirit which the "Graduate" admires, that is doing so much to lower journalism in this country to the rank of the dime novel. Sensationalism has been shown and any defense, especially in an aggressive way, is presumptuous and entirely out of place. In addition, the college press should not be made the means whereby correspondents who write in good faith can be flatly accused of jealously and personal animosity. It would seem that...
...Channing Church fair at Newton closes this evening. A great variety of novel, useful and ornamental articles will be offered for sale, affording a splendid opportunity for everybody to lay in a stock of presents for the coming holidays...
...climax that one of the injured players was "probably fatally injured." Such rhetorical efforts as this, savor over much of the morbid, and we trust that the writer of the glaring account, will, in the future, curb his imaginative enthusiasm and adopt a little less of the conventional dime novel style...