Word: readers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...students in English 5, these remarks on the election of Mr. Lowell form, in their mingling of grace, frankness, and humor, perhaps the happiest comment so far made on the event which is of so much interest to us all. This event will remain in the minds of most readers of the second article, that of Mr. S. A. Mellor on the Oxford Undergraduate. Everybody is now meditating advice to the new President, formulating programs for the new regime and such a clear and interesting account of what our great cousin across the seas does for her sons, abounds...
...verse show differing degrees of maturity of thought, poetical feeling and constructive skill. The most ambitious of these is "A Night Song,"--a lover's homage to his beloved as the two sit together in a fragrant garden by the sea. The external situation is finely conceived--the reader feels the moonlight, the flowers, the booming of the sea, the isolation. Part of Milton's canon, that poetry should be simple, sensuous and passionate, the poem is faithful to; it has burning passion and sensuous description; but it has not simplicity. Simplicity involves clearness, without which a poem fails...
...Cutting's "The Consul's Nightingale" is the best of the stories. His style has backbone, he has an eye for the humorous and the picturesque and a knack for making the reader share his vision. Finally he is content to smile without laughing. Of the "screamingly funny" type, on the contrary, is Mr. Prince's. "In the Days of the Gods," which appears to be a vague and completely bowlderized reminiscence of an episode in the fifteenth book of the Iliad. One's screams, however, are not long prolonged. Of ten august and ancient inspirations, and no happier...
...expected figures also in "Jean and the Rabbit-Jules," and in Mr. Barber's "Club-foot Joe." He is as much one of the stock characters of the woods story as the rascally slave of Latin comedy; but three appearances in one week is overworking him, and the reader would sympathize if he struck. Mr. Ashwell writes of a day's fishing in Devon, in which he found sober English trout properly shy of big and gaudy American flies; but the discovery has not chastened his adjectives. The propensity to fine phrases is the besetting temptation of many college writers...
...equal." It has proved to be not only this but a meeting place for individuals, for organizations of many kinds, for mass meetings and class smokers, an eating-place which alone in Cambridge supplies the need of first-class restaurant fare and adequate provision for University training-tables, a reader's resort with library and files of newspapers and periodicals, a place where those inclined may play games and billiards, a headquarters for the undergraduate papers, the CRIMSON, Advocate and Monthly, and in short an institution aiming not only to supply many material needs of the students in the University...