Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...examples of serious Advocate verse have shown less straining after effect or more real beauty of simplicity than "The Sculptor of Milos," by Charles Wharton Stork. The central idea of the poem, it is true, seems on a second reading, falsely dramatic, and is not justified by the scant explanation of its motive; yet the ease of the lines and the unfailing interest in the thought go a long way toward helping the reader to overlook this defect. Another piece of verse, "March in Massachusetts," by L. W., makes one wish to drop work and get into the country...
...been made both at the Cambridge station and at the Observatory in Peru. From the observations made by Professor Wendell he disproves the statement that comets are perfectly transparent. In addition to data on these two subjects observations are recorded on missing asteroids, whose disappearance is regarded as a serious loss by astronomers...
...paper. The quaint humor which runs through the lines never seems to have been consciously sought after, and so becomes the more effective. Of the other verses, "A Song," by R. P. arrests one's attention with the swing of its lines. The thought, simply enough expressed, is more serious than most Advocate verse, but luckily was not entombed in a sonnet...
...dual fencing match which was to have been held with Cornell at Ithaca tomorrow has been postponed on notice from the Cornell management on account of the serious outbreak of typhoid fever at Ithaca...
...premising its definition of good criticism and over-looking the fact that, besides the destructive, there is an appreciative criticism often as illuminating as the work itself, falls into the error of condemning the good for the sins of the bad. The second editorial, an appeal to the serious minded for a right understanding of the "College butterfly," is very seasonable. The longer contributions are all in prose with one exception, "The Two Wreaths," a poem in three stanzas, delicate in thought and unfaltering in rhythm. "Philanthropists Unwitting" would read better if it were not curiously reminiscent of an earlier...