Word: self
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...other numbers two mark themselves out. In "Atropos" Mr. Shipherd takes us back to the deluge and gives a keen study of self-centered emotion, a picture of the last man clambering up Ararat before the waters cover the universe. The tense tragedy of the final moment is well done. Mr. Simon's "The Blue Coat" tells the story of a poor Russian peasant woman following with high hopes on the trail of the husband who has sought a new home in this country. She discovers he has found a new bride and forgotten the old. It is an elemental...
...subject of the Iliad is perhaps considered second rate, as Achilles is not a very sympathetic hero; and were it not for his misery and repentance at the end, most readers would dislike him because of his arrogance and self-conceit. There are in the poem many inconsistencies, such as various descriptions which cannot be thought out, and similes which are not strictly applicable. In examining various instances of these inconsistencies the conclusion seems to be that the high poetic value of the Iliad must be considerably detracted from. We see many of the similes and descriptions taken over ready...
...systematic regularity do disapprove the method of expression at least. Without the least pretence of being in a position to preach against the faults of some childish students, we do feel that the majority should rule and not sit indifferently or with forced smiles while the same few, from self-appointed authority, make jokes of lectures and nuisances of themselves. It is a College tradition not to bear witness against a fellow-student; but there is an equally well-established tradition that College men can protect their rights when occasion arises...
...plot, puts the story in the class of the unintentional burlesque. One is glad that the two college types suggested in the number are at least unobtrusive, if indeed they exist at all. The "Non-Conformer" in the third paper of Varied Outlooks by A. Davis 1L., in his self-sufficiency and in his arrogance of difference from ordinary human beings, is only less deformed than the unfortunate youth in "The Reckoning," by C. W. Wickersham 1L., who, having made an ass of himself generally, took "a queer shaped object" from his table drawer and "looked steadily down into...
...usually not until after graduation that Harvard men are often forced to admit an ignorance, far from flattering, of the buildings and places of interest not only in Boston, but within the bounds of their own University. We do not speak entirely of those self-sufficient students who pride themselves on the fact that they have never been inside Appleton Chapel, or seen the stained windows in Memorial. Nor can we admit in this case the entire truth of the adage that familiarity breeds contempt. It is more probable the somewhat confined routine of University life and the busy rush...