Word: novels
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...pronounced hobbies. Klapproth, with the preconceived notion that he is visiting a sanitarium, naturally enough believes the residents in the pension to be mildly insane. There follow a series of uproariously funuy scenes between Klapproth and the "patients" Josephine Kruger, who is continually searching for material for a new novel: Fritz Bernhardy, an inveterate traveller: Eugen Rumpel, a young man with dramatic aspirations and a defect in his speech: Grober, an irascible old soldier: and Amalic Pfeiffer, who is constantly searching for a husband for her daughter...
...Advocate board has ended its editorial labors with a number commendable for both the variety and quality of its articles. The editorial, on the importance and position of the undergraduate paper, is thoughtfully optimistic in tone, and concludes with dignified reference to the incoming board. "A Novel Experience," by T. Ybarra '05, shows how proper treatment can make a "then-he-woke-up" story entertaining; as does "The Sequel," which in part burlesques "Rupert of Hentzau." A pleasant mixture of English setting and American humor is "My Diary," by J. Hinckley '06. "The Joy of Living...
Bookman--"University and Public Libraries," by C. A. Nelson '60; "The Historical Novel and Some Recent Books," by F. T. Cooner...
...Perhaps some of you will do us the favor to write a novel in which that scene shall be the best scene, and these gentlemen shall quote some of their best verses. Our benefactor was a favorite of Cromwell's. We know that Cromwell loved New England and New Englanders...
...matter of caricature, and in the verse, that a certain weakness makes itself felt. Wit and humor have a narrow field in a College paper, but a very propitious one, since in College every one is or ought to be merry and everything has a right to seem somewhat novel and absurd. Let us hope the class of 1905, after furnishing the Lampoon with a lawful but will furnish it with a Howarth or two and one or two Herricks, to catch the momentary sparkle of our small world...