Word: readers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Peterson's stories meritorious though not distinguished; the poetry is worth reading, Mr. Mariett's "Cat Tails", in fact, is remarkably careful in its observation of nature and skillful in its metrical construction, and the best thing in the number, Mr. Byng's "Tale of the Lowlands", convinces the reader that the author is really familiar with the material out of which he made his little tragedy so pathetic in its loneliness...
...high scholar indeed; and, as everybody knows, might, if he had so chosen, have been appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States; Woodrow Wilson has long been renowned as a scholar and a particularly able writer; and Theodore Roosevelt. Harvard '80, always an omnivorous yet a discriminating reader, was one of the first eight in the Phi Beta Kappa of his year. Although these instances are too few and scattering to prove anything definite, they still point to facts that one day may be tabulated in greater numbers; and they are, at the present moment, interesting and highly...
...Bishop, the well-known dramatic reader and lecturer, will give a reading on "Dramatic Scenes from the United States Senate", under the auspices of the La Follette club, in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The reading will be open to all members of the University...
...Advocate begins with an optimistic editorial on the latest shibboleth, the Honor System, and then presents the reader with a poem entitled, "To Some Good Editor Who'll Think." The latter contribution is an attempt to write humorous verse in that singing, swinging metrical form found in "The Ingoldsby Legends." Since the subject matter of the poem, however, is not rollicking, but only noisy and tawdry, and since the metrical structure is so uneven that the stanzas seem but rows of rhymed, unaccented sentences, the author, happily unknown, can hardly be said to have attained his goal...
When this fearful poem has faded from the reader's mental view, he will find the rest of the number satisfying. The second article, "A Liberal Education," by Mr. D. L. MacVeagh, answers recent critics of the University in a worthy and dignified manner. The story, "The Best Laid Schemes," begins with elaborate plans to catch the reader's attention, and then after complicated stimulation of his interest, leaves him with the sense that he has been duped into reading an inconsequential tale. Mr. Williams's "An Inexpensive Tragedy," though much less pretentious in its form, is much more interesting...