Word: prig
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Desire" illustrates once more the difficulty of doing anything fresh with Class Day, a senior, and a debutante. "The A B C's of Diarism" is, in spite of the somewhat obvious influence of Henry James, much more individual than the other story, and its analysis of the prig who writes the diaries is done with considerable delicacy and in a wholesome spirit. Besides, R. M. Arkush '07 has courage to sign his sketch, and he gets his reward in the achievement of a kind of sincerity not easily cultivated under anonymity. In his discussion of "Swinburne's Relation...