Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purposes of the meeting, as stated, mention first of all the formation of uniform editorial policy among College Newspapers. This, as the need of unity most obvious to the average reader, heads the list; but beyond this, and beyond all the particular needs of cooperation, there should be a general spirit of fellowship between men and organizations working at the same problems, with the same end in view. It is this spirit which helped bring success to the men grouped with Franklin about the historic table. And it is this same spirit which is the ultimate aim of the present...
...this has been loosely strung on an almost insignificant plot in an attempt to bring unity out of the mass of slightly related material. In this the author has failed. At first the reader is absorbed with the skillful presentation of the Vane household in New England, and one is pleased with the agreeable contrast in the portrayal of Michael Hare and his luxurious surroundings on Fifth Avenue. But it is easy to become impatient, as unimportant characters and situations are introduced merely for the purpose of creating new pictures, making it hard to follow a main thread through...
...times Mr. Cutler's style is vivid, but too often he breaks the effect of continuity by the copious use of long parenthetical comments, and too often the reader is reminded of the author's presence. His fondness for allusions and vague metaphors frequently spoils an otherwise delectable description, making it seem heavy and out of place. Mr. Cutler has succeeded best in his portrayal of the two extremes of character, the proper Clemency Vane, who looks ever backward to her ancestors, and Michael Hare, whose only hope and happiness is his grand-daughter. As a story the novel...
...write in the grand manner of the great Frenchman, but rather on the smaller, but often equally exciting scale of Stevenson and Stanley Weyman. The Sea-Hawk is accurate and picturesque in history; but it never drags or preaches or forces historical scholarship or tedious archaisms upon the reader...
Other authors should regard the fate of Mr. Wells with trepidation. Recently writers have become content with pages that resemble Democratic campaign speeches with all the references to Wall Street expurgated. The old masters never relinquished their ascendancy in the reader's mind by such degradations of language. They found words to express even the complex internal phenomena that cause the modern writers such difficulty. But with the other kinds of freedom which are by-products of democracy, comes the liberty to fill in the spaces for oneself. Apparently, authors trust in the reader's imagination to bridge the gaps...