Word: reader
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Decadeney," being a retort to Max Nordau, "Lest We Forget" borrows its title as well as its metre from Kipling's Recessional, but beyond this and its religious character the connection is not clear. In fact, the second half of the poem will be a puzzle to the ordinary reader...
Among the book reviews is a somewhat testy criticism of "Harvard Episodes" which is likely to impress the average reader as rather overdone...
TENOR with fine voice and good reader can receive vocal lessons and give services in return in church. I have trained many Glee Club men. Voices tested free. R. N. Lister, 19 Putnam avenue, Cambridge...
...indeed admitted in the dedication that the book can lay no claim to being representative of Harvard, but this inconspicuous statement will be overlooked or soon forgotten by the average reader, and a distorted picture of life here will thus be circulated. If such a thing were possible, it would do no harm to confine the circulation of "Harvard Episodes" to Harvard undergraduates...
...book is, however, engrossing and exceedingly clever. A distinct power of analysis and observation appears in every story, clear vision combining with fearless statement to produce conviction in the reader's mind. We are indebted to the author for the best written book of fiction that has yet appeared on the subject of Harvard life, although narrow in its treatment...