Word: novels
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ready acquiescence to intercollegiate contests in spring sports, athletics once more are established on a sound basis. Baseball, track and crew may now start, assured that their season of practice will culminate in meeting opponents of similar status. The uncertainty as to the awarding of insignia forms a novel test of undergraduates' interest in exercise per se, for the men who have slaved through weeks of hated labor to wear the envied "H" will now be eliminated. Only those who enter these sports for the enjoyment or the benefit derived from them will be attracted...
Scissoring a Liberty coupon will therefore be a wholly novel experience to many who will tackle the not arduous task. Whether the coupon is for 88 cents or $1.75 or much more, the thrill will be there. And with it will arise the question what do to with this accession of income...
...fate of the hero of Captain Bjornstadt's novel, which was so eagerly devoured by the literature lovers of last year's Reserve Officers' Training Corps, has kept many of our military students in constant trepidation. Sergeant Hill, when last encountered, was still leading Quinn and Peterson on a desperate patrol toward the lines of the hostile Blues. With the skill of a Peo, Bjornstadt brought his hero into action and with bullets whizzing about him left this second Roland to his fate. What happened to Sergeant Hill? Even Captain Hamlin, Chief of Sections, was unable to answer this mystifying...
...Among those recently published are: "Shelley in England," Roger Ingpen; "Short Rations," Madeleine Z. Doty; "Pip," by Ian Hay; "America's Relations to the Great War," J. W. Burgess; the collected poems of James Elroy Flecker; "The Spirit of American Literature," J. A. Macy; "The Advance of the English Novel," W. L. Phelps; "Dante," C. H. Grandgent '83; "Lost Endeavor," by John Masefield; "A Popular Life of Martin Luther," Elsie Singmaster; "Health and Disease," R. I. Lee '02; "Abraham Lincoln," Lord Charnwood...
...first presentation to the American public of the work of Johann Sigurjonsson by the 47 Workshop in Jordan Hall tonight is full of significance. This play, "Eywind of the Hills," based as it is upon the life and customs of Iceland, introduces a novel note into the American theatre. The play had its first representation in Copenhagen only a few years ago, and never before has any play by this new writer been produced in this country...