Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...very large audience listened to Mr. Copeland's lecture last evening on Mr. Hardy, Mr. Kipling, Miss Jewett, Miss Wilkins and other writers of the Short Story. The lecturer began with a few words upon the theory of this form of literary art. The conte, as the French call it, the short story, as we call it, has not flourished and does not flourish in England. English writers too often make their tales seem like chapters from a three volume novel, or at least like awkward attempts at the novellete. They should, on the contrary, restrict the time...
American writers, said the speaker, have worked the richest field in the short story. Mr. Thomas Nelson Page and Mr. Joel Chandler Harris are well known southerners, and Mr. Harding Davis has made a national reputation for himself which is perhaps a little in excess of his merits. "Gallegher" is on the whole his best achievement, and his early stories are in general his best. Miss Jewett and Miss Wilkins are in Mr. Copeland's opinion at the top of American writers of the short story. Miss Wilkins is undoubtedly the more dramatic of the two, but equally without doubt...
Yesterday afternoon the sophomore crew was out on the river and rowed short stretches down to the Union Boat Club and back. The crew was strengthened by the addition of F. L. Ames who has lately been rowing with the 'varsity. The order was as follows: Stroke, Adams; 7, Cabot; 6, Bull; 5, Fuller, 4, Ames; 3, Scull; 2, Rice; bow, Dobyns. The crew is not doing very well at present and needs to improve...
...Copeland will speak in Sever 11 at 8 o'clock on "Writers of the Short Story." The lecture will be open to all members of the University...
Lecture. Mr. Harding Davis, Miss Jewett, Mr. Kipling, Guy de Maupassant, Stevenson, Miss Wilkins, and Other Writers of the Short Story. Mr. Copeland. Sever...