Word: novels
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Project Not Entirely Novel...
...life in camp and on the march. Pictures of various creatures living in the arctic regions, such as seals and penguins, form a most interesting part of those to be exibited. A game of football on the ice fields, participated in by the members of the party is another novel feature...
Folowing "Yvon the Daring," a one-act tragedy by Miss Anna MacDonald, there will be given a revival of the old "Revesby Sword Play," a very interesting and novel set of dances broken by snatches of nonsensical burlesque. The last play on the program, "The Chimes," was written by a former member of Professor Baker's course at Radcliffe, Miss Elizabeth McFadden, also the author of "The Product of the Mill...
...rest of the number consists chiefly of book reviews, written for the most part with good sense and discrimination. Mr. Seldes's "American Literature: Currents and Whirlpools" somewhat ambitiously attempts a diagnosis of the diseases of "bad work and insignificant work" from which he believes the novel of this country to be suffering. The article contains sound distinctions and acute observations, but it is marred by some pretentiousness in tone and certain defects of style. These last are such as perennially affect the cleverer kinds of undergraduate criticism--the use of a vocabulary sometimes merely precious, sometimes employed with...
...next thing that will be noticed is that when Yale has the ball it adopts a formation which is practically an entirely new development in modern football. Curiously enough, this has been little commented on, but none the less it is novel and the most striking things about the Yale offence. Ordinarily the scrimmage line of the team in possession of the ball is without material gaps between the players from end to end. The Minnesota shift, while seemingly an exception to this statement, is in fact not so, because when the men assume their final positions prior...