Word: readers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Friends" tells of a young clerk with an "almost Apollic hand," "a thin nose," a "wide nare," and "unplumbed eyes," who reluctantly wins the friendship of a fellow clerk--and proves to be a girl (as the clever reader has discovered some months in advance of the hero). The story lacks novelty, probability and power. "The Process" appears to be just such a tale as no young man should try to tell, a tale outside the author's experience and beyond the present reach of his imagination. The style is a little too deliberately jaunty...
...dispair. When the competition finally closes we are confident that something worth while will be handed in. Harvard has a reputation for play-writing that must be maintained and the incentives to its maintenance are continually forth coming. The conclusion may be left to the imagination of the reader...
...Last," I. P., treating the recent revival in English drama, has a rich subject little treated as yet. I. P. merely flashes a thought of his before the reader and is done. A pity--this, for the bloom is off a fine subject--that...
...Join a Harvard Club," and "Harvard and Social Service," by Mr. Hamlin. Although Mr. Maxwell, in his article on "The Private Dormitories of the Future," seems to have solved to his own satisfaction the social problem at Harvard, there is still some doubt in the mind of the average reader of his article as to whether or not the acquisition of the private dormitories by the University would be a wise thing. The article is well worth reading, however, and there is room for thought in what the author says...
...Noyes is a well-known English poet and has been particularly prominent lately as an advocate of universal peace. It is on one phase of this subject, of which he has made a thorough study, that he will speak this evening. He is an accomplished reader, particularly of his own poems, which are unusual for their style and feeling...