Word: prose
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many circumstances which contribute to the formation of a style, reading is but one. Desultory reading, if care is not exercised, will almost invariably induce a looseness of handling in writing and a lack of distinct expression. A close study of the very first masters of English prose is, perhaps, the only means open to students who cannot afford to gain the cultivation offered by the composition courses. Even among standard authors a choice should be made. This is a point, however, which each student must exercise his individual taste. But upon his taste will depend, almost invariably, the character...
...make what he says worthy of attention. Mr. W. W. Baldwin has a very sympathetic sketch of southern life, - an old negro's story of the death of a son in battle. The piece has a touch of truth and feeling rare in our college papers. The only other prose article, which is by Mr. H. G. Bruce, is entitled The Confessions of Donald Grant. Mr. Bruce has given us a very strong and subtle study of some of the phenomena of the passion which men usually call love...
...which distinctly does not tend to improve the student's style. Improvement of style is not to be attained by a perusal of laborious, crude, and often abortive college compositions, but by a study, and a hard study at that, of the best works of the masters of English prose. Arnold, Shelley (letters), Fielding, Huxley and Webster may be read and studied to advantage if improvement is desired in the power of criticism, description, narration, exposition and argumentative composition. There is far too little "college reading." Our four courses are not, after all, the whole substance of a good year...
...papers set in Latin prose composition are generally of about the same calibre as the historical exercises in the excellent "Handbook of Latin Writing" lately prepared by your able young professors, Preble and Parker...
...Advocate commemorates the closing of its fortieth volume and the coming of its twentieth birthday in a number wholly made up by its past editors. The contributors of prose are W. G. Peckham, '67, F. G. Ireland, '68, C. H. Swan, '70, C. C. Stein, '71, W. R. Tyler, '74, C. H. Barrows, '76, Lindsay Swift, '77, E. W. Morse, '78, Woodward Hudson, '79, Arthur Hale, A. B. Hart and J. L. Pennypacker, '80; of verse, L. W. Clark and T. C. Pease, '75, George Pellew, '80, G. L. Kittredge, '82, A. M. Lord, '83, T. L. Frothingham...