Word: novels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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PUSH BALL.- More men are wanted to make up teams for this novel game. Football men solicited. Practice three times a week. Communicate with E. R. Crane, 2 Weld Hall...
Elinor was herself a patron of poetry. There is every reason to believe that her court was the resort of all the brilliant men and the poets of the north of France. Fortunately for us it was their delight to take for their theme the novel moral ideals and virtues of the time. The troubadours loved to tell first of all of courtesy as high in the rank of virtues; then of valor, of generosity, of perfect refinement and gentleness. There were other virtues which do not now pass as such. Youth was lauded, age condemned. Without joy, whether active...
...Bachelor of Arts makes the following mention of the course in novel reading being instituted at Yale...
...educational experiment that starts at Yale this fall is the course in modern novels under Dr. William Lyon Phelps. The purpose of it is to teach students to read standard novels in such a way as to strengthen their faculties instead of debauching them. The course is popular, as might be expected. It would have rejoiced the heart of the late Professor Boyesen and encouraged that good man to hope that modern education was about to turn out novel readers sufficiently stout of heart and of stern enough discipline to tackle the tales of the American realists...
From the same publishers we have also received "A Singular Life" by Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. It is an interesting account of the courtship of Mr. and Mrs. Ward at Andover. As an autobiography it is excellent but as a novel it is decidedly stupid...