Word: sketch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Fidelia is a not very successful attempt to imitate the old English "Spectator" style of two centuries ago. The most interesting article in the number is Mr. Warren's "Oxford to a Harvard Man." It is merely a sketch of a ramble through the old university town but it contains an entertaining account of the boating life of the university and a charming description of Magdalen College with its quaint old buildings and curious customs The college feeling at Oxford is well contrasted with the class and university feeling here. The article is brightly written, but is marred by errors...
...Collegian for January, Dr. Edward Everett Hale, who has been identified with Harvard life for half a century, gives a short sketch of the college life as it was in his undergraduate days. It is an interesting comparison with the Harvard life of today, so we quote a few of the most salient passages...
...Prosper Bender's "Winters in Quebec" is a vivid sketch of winter life in the old Canadian city, in marked contrast to our anomalous season...
...Dodge's sketch of Benvenuto Cellini presents vividly some of the characteristic traits of that wonderful man whose history people are never tired of hearing. The writer's style is, it is almost needless to say, pure and vivacious. Well-chosen anecdotes of Benvenuto's life, interspersed with sagacious criticism, make this piece of character study extremely interesting...
...Warren's "Vanitas" is an interesting and well-written, though not a very flattering story of modern summer life. Mr. Corbin contributes a poem-"The Song of the Sea Shell-a mournful but pretty little song. "A Virgin Priestess," by Mr. Batchelder, is an original but rather startling Druid sketch. "A Parable" is very brightly written. We hope the Blue Hound and the Small Young Ass will appreciate its humor as well as its sarcasm. The last prose article is "Jerry's Consolation," by Mr. Wardner, a sequel to "A Nineteenth Century Romance." It is written in the same humorous...