Word: simonson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...leading article of the current Monthly is a serious and thoughtful essay on "Whistler and the Multitude" by L. Simonson. The author is mistaken, I think, in one of his main theses, that art has no message for the multitude; he is right if he limits himself to the Anglo-Saxon multitude, but wrong if he remembers the Italian; for example one of the most encouraging things in our American composite life is a Sunday afternoon visit to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Mr. Simonson is wrong, too, in choosing the slashing style, in throwing other critics...
...larger part of the number is composed of fiction. Mr. Simonson's "Unfinished Madonna" is a delicately told story, rich in sensuous suggestion; and has a symmetry of form and a subdued harmony of tone that give it artistic quality. The characters are on the whole so well imagined that one regrets the more keenly the lapse of imagination that compels him to conclude the story by a suicide. The same regret occurs to one in reading Mr. Carb's terrible but effective character study "Leri," though in this case the suicide is not only more clearly inevitable but better...
...menu design by L. Simonson '09 and the class song by J. C. Bills, Jr., '09, have been accepted...
...Daemon of Poetry" has given us what perhaps is more unusual, a suggestion of the visions that are sometimes granted to our prosaic souls and that are the life of poets. The essay is very delicate, often subtle, and withal simple. "Chesterton and the Philosophy of Paradox," by L. Simonson '09, is very thoughtful but not thoroughly worked out. The author has not given Chesterton, the whole man. He recognizes the value, critical and philosophical, of many of Chesterton's paradoxes, but is inclined impulsively to give equal importance to all, including those which are mere exercises in verbal ingenuity...
...Rosenthal '09, Hilton W. S. Sawyer '07, Harvard College P. W. Saxton '08, C. L. Jones F. Schenck '09, Harvard College E. B. Sheldon '08, Harvard College R. F. Sheldon '07, Harvard College W. P. Sheppard '09, Harvard College H. R. Shipherd '08, Sewall F. Shoemaker '07, Burr L. Simonson '09, Harvard College E. W. Sinnott '08, Harvard College D. O. Slater '08, Orlando W. Doe C. L. Smith '07, Class of 1817 M. E. Spear '09, Price Greenleaf Fund S. T. Stackpole '07, Harvard College E. B. Stern '07, Harvard College J. B. Stetson, Jr., '07, Harvard College...