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...Will you listen now to a few facts,--too few to draw general conclusions from, yet still strangely interesting in themselves. Story-tellers and playwrights are not expected to be scholars, are they? Yet Owen Wister, '82, was in the first quarter of his class. Henry M. Rideout, '99, author of "The Siamese Cat", "Beached Keels", and other justly admired tales, took his bachelor's degree magna cum laude. Of the three most successful and most distinguished Harvard playwrights, Knoblauch, of '96, although he won no scholastic distinction, was well known to all who knew him as a deep...
...Holden Metallurgy 15, Sever 24 Mining 1, Emerson D Philosophy 3, Lawrence 1 Philosophy 18, Lower Mass. Physics 1, Emerson D Slavic 2a, Sever 24 Comp. Lit. 1: (Assignment of rooms, Comp. Lit. 1). Allen to Dunbar (inclusive), Sever 29 Elliott to Jewett (inclusive), Sever 30 Jones to Rideout (inclusive), Sever 35 Robbins to Yamins (inclusive), Sever 36 History 13: (Assignment of rooms, History 13). Adair to Kenyon (inclusive), Upper Mass. Kittredge to Yarnall (inclusive), Lower Mass. Physics C: (Assignment of rooms, Physics C). Alger to Ju (inclusive), Zool. Lect. Room G. Kaemmerling to Neilson (inclusive), Pierce 202 Nesmith...
Some of the poems, moreover, have the same quality throughout: as "Spring Song," by Hugh McCulloch; "The Serf's Secret," by William Vaughn Moody; "Frustra," by Henry Milnor Rideout; "Epicureans," by Warren Seymour Archibald; the second of Hermann Hagedorn's "Songs of Sunlight"; and the really beautiful first of Joseph Trumbull Stickney's sonnets "To F. L. P.," unusual in thought as well as finished in expression. Several of the longer poems, although somewhat conventional in content, are unusually good for undergraduate work, such as "A. Journey Long Ago," by Alanson Bigelow Houghton; Henry Sheldon Sanford's "Ode to Death...
More satisfactory is the study of Rideout's work. Here, at least, we have what is worth having and worth noting: the views of an enthusiastic admirer who is at the age when admiration is generous and little restricted by the habit of criticism. It is not possible to accept all the conclusions of the writer, especially as he invalidates some of them himself--e. g., the simile of the lizard on the wall--but it is pleasant to see the genuine attempt to give a reason for the faith that is in the enthusiast...
...personal pronouns jars upon the ear. It is simple, and that is a quality too little thought of by young writers, apt to imagine that the more complex their sentences and the more far-fetched their comparisons the more artistic their work. The writer of the study on Rideout offends in this way: he has one sentence, if not more, that challenges the understanding and defeats...