Word: sistere
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fiction is, as usual, of uneven merit. "The City of Hoggsville" and "Adin Ray Knight Errant" are slight, but distinctly amusing. "Room-mates" introduces a good situation, but the difficulty is not sufficiently explained by the subsequent appearance of a cheap and consumptive sister to the mysterious "mate." "A Hater of Pictures" is written, perhaps intentionally, in that racy style that one associates with tracts, but the denouement is cleverly concealed till the last sentence, and then it is so sudden that the it leaves the reader gasping...
...friendship between the two young men during the five years of John Harvard's residence in Cambridge. At 28, he received the degree of A.M.: Of his character we know almost nothing, except that he chose good friends, and had a literary bent. In 1636 he married Saddler's sister, and in 1637 came to America...
...book review in the number speaks patronizingly of a novel as no doubt very good of its kind, brisk, exciting, entertaining. These excellent qualities are not found in the stories of the Monthly, Mr. Adams's "Beyond the Gate," Mr. Bellows's "Brother and Sister," and Mr. Carbs's "Reveilles." Mr. Moon's "In the Track of the Turk" shows experience in an out-of-the-way corner of the world; it could have been made more tense...
Bookman--"The Fetich of Form and Some Recent Novels," F. T. Cooper '86; "Theodore Dreiser's 'Sister Carrie,'" H. G. Rhodes...
Professor James Barr Ames '68, Dean of the Law School, has been called abroad for an indefinite length of time, owing to the illness of his sister...