Word: readers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...stories in the number, G. Emerson's "Fantoccini" succeeds in working the reader up to a pretty pitch of suspense, and comes near avoiding altogether the anti-climax which one has come to anticipate in tales of horror; while L. Grandgent's "The Everlasting Hills," after a highly conventional Class-Day opening, develops in a more original fashion; and only needed more space and a somewhat subtler analysis to be a psychological study of more than average interest. The critic of Alfred Noyes displays most of the vices of immature criticism: a lack of discernible method, a tendency merely...
...poetical in conception, but the imagery seems to lack originality, and the lines drag. "River Wind," on the other hand, is really an excellent bit of verse. The idea is extremely poetical, the language, although very simple, is also poetical, while the swing of the lines carries the reader along. The theme of the poem reminds one instantly of Hovey, with whose lyrics of a similar kind "River Wind" compares not unfavorably...
...sympathy with his subject and, at times, his genuine warmth, make his work promising. His extracts from Sill's poetry are less impressive than he means them to be. "The Fool's Prayer," striking as it is, contains more truth than poetry, and would scarcely stick in the reader's mind except for the brilliant perversion at the end,--"O, Lord...
...Play"--distinctly overemphasize the aspect of College life that is least to our credit. Drunkennes and vice unquestionably exist but it is a pity to have the idea of them rubbed in through the columns of the undergraduate papers. Both stories are well written; but they lead the uniformed reader to suppose that Harvard men spend their lives in an atmosphere, not morely of hilarity, but of reckless dissipation. "The Philosophy of Horatio" is almost well enough done to be justifiable: but "A Fake Play" has the fundamental weakness of being didactic without being clear. The third prose article, "Tactics...
...covers of the Anniversary Number reproduce those of the first edition. On the editorial page is a tribute to Professor Shaler. Its reminiscent tone brings to the reader's mind a host of personal memories that carry him far beyond the printed page. "The Source" is a sonnet by Frank Dempster Sherman '87 on the east and the morning, which he handles with delicacy and sureness, and with entire success. "On the Return of a Graduate", by Richard Washburn Child '03 is a most gratifyingly deft and complete exposition of a rather intangible subject. It is bright and readable throughout...