Word: novels
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...following men have been chosen Commencement speakers: A.S. Pease has been assigned the salutatory and will take as his subject, "De Beneficiis Studiosae Vitae Tradendis;" R.M. Green will speak on "Ruskin's Influence on Modern Ethics;" G.C. Hirst on "The Case of the Short Story versus the Novel;" R.B. Ogilby on "The Development of the Holy Grail Legend." A.R. Campbell will be Commencement orator from the Law School, and H.W. Foote from the Divinity School...
...great deal of attention has been given to the music, and as a result it will be novel and tuneful and should add greatly to the effectiveness of the play...
...Colonial," by Allen French '94, is a typical historical novel from the beginning, with a miniature portrait of the heroine on the frontispiece, to the triumphant end. Its story, opening in the wild Indian country near the great lakes, is developed in colonial Boston during the early days of the Revolution. The great men of the day appear upon the scene, though he author has been singularly temperate in the parts which they are made to play. A love story of no great power runs through the book, but the most striking features depend upon the number and the depravity...
...Roux took for the text of his lecture a passage from Pascal: "L'homme n'est ni ange ni bete." This principle of Pascal Zola has ignored, and has only considered the lower side of man. Zola's novel, "La Terse," has lately been dramatized and put on the stage in a Parisian literary theatre. The characters are countrymen, people of little or no culture, who in every country have a certain brutality of instinct. Yet in criticising this work, the peasants declare that Zola has ascribed to them all the crimes committed in the whole of France during...
Flaubert, in what is perhaps his best known novel, "Madame Bovary" studies the problems arising in the second half of the nineteenth century from this mingling of classes. His conclusion is that the effects of too rapid culture on the middle class French woman are pernicious. In this M. Le Roux agrees with him; for, with an ancient race, every-day education must always precede instruction in less tangible matters. Flaubert treats the subject firmly but reverently; his host of imitators, however, have cheapened his art, lost the depth and retained only the sentimental and superficial...