Word: novels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...narrative, the writer has skillfully blended description and exposition. "At the Edge of the Moor," by Apthorp Gould Fuller '00, exemplifies the evil of disingenuousness of expression. With the evident purpose of outdoing Stevenson, the writer has produced a story which sounds strained and selfconscious. Although pertinent and novel expressions are usually better than conventional ones, yet he uses phrases which are not only inapt but objectionable in their unconventionality...
...country who has the impulse to enlist should think twice before he follows it we can not doubt; President Eliot has made for us a very clear and noble aualysis of the different motives to enlistment. But two of the ideas presented in the editorial are so novel to a graduate that I can not forbear a comment. The first is the proposition that the patriotism of college men is different from that of Americans who haven't the good fortune to go to college; the other is the notion of a Harvard Freshman or Sophomore as the wielder...
...Bellows '99, J. A. Macy '99, J. F. Brice '99, and H. James '99. Professor Baker read a letter from Mr. George Meredith which had been written in reply to an article of his in the Monthly, and in which Mr. Meredith gave some supplementary theories on the novel and a modest apology for his shortcomings as measured by public opinion...
...play was admirably staged, the costumes being elaborate and novel and the scenic effects well managed. The costumes of the guards and of the "Daughters of Piracy" were especially noticeable. Both principals and chorus showed careful training, and there were no serious hitches in the performance. The dances were one of the most pleasing features. Particular mention should be made of the dances of the sailors and the Spanish women, which occur in the first act. The most amusing feature of the performance was the "Beacon Babies" who made a hit with their parody in the second act. The specialties...
...constituting what reminds one of a spelling class contest, is a clever one. Under such an arrangement if any team retires after the series has begun, each of the others will simply move up a peg and the competition will continue as before. Moreover, the plan is so novel that it promises to prove an attraction in itself, and so help to make the series popular and increase its usefulness as a training school...