Word: sketch
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Thayer began with a brief sketch of Chief Justice Marshall's life, and the events preceding his appointment to the supreme bench. His appointment came at a critical time, when amidst the strife and change of political parties contending over points of a constitution but half interpreted there arose the need of a great lawyer to explain clearly and aright the true principles of the American scheme of government. Cases involving the subtlest points of the Constitution came before Marshall during his long term as Chief Justice, and to the wisdom of his decisions is due in great measure...
...Montague '01 has written under the heading "Mr. George Moore" an exhaustive criticism of that novelists' work. "Wanship, out West" by F. W. Reynolds '03 is a sketch of a dusty little Western town,--interesting because it is written with the appreciation of true feeling. There are two stories.--"The Line of Least Resistance" by J. G. Forbes, and "Nettle Touch" by J. LaFarge. They are good stories and somewhat similar in purpose, each bringing out in an incident of the life of a young man the prevalence of the better instincts over the worse...
...seems a pity that the four best stories in the number should all be unsigned. They are, in order of merit, "The Repentance of Ford," a remarkably well drawn college story; "Same Thing, only Different," a very amusing improbable sketch; "A Boat Race," a bit of vivid reminiscence of which the title tells the substance; and "Rosinante," a brutal tale which portrays fairly well the state of mind of a lonesome man in the wilderness. In these four stories the touch of amateurishness, so common in work of this sort, is conspicuously absent. The other four stories, while unworthy...
...belonged to Napoleon the Great was discovered among some of the volumes of the Riant Collection at the Library when these were being classified recently. The book is a copy of Tasso's "Jerusalem De ivered," translated by Lebrun from the Italian into French, and supplemented by a biographical sketch of Tasso. The book is in two volumes, illustrated by several ngravings, and was printed in Paris by Bossanger in 1803; it is bound in calf, and on the covers are the imperial eagles, and, stamped in gold, the word "Fontainebleau." From the library of the palace of Fontainebleau...
...last number of the Advocate contains little of real literary value. Six of the seven prose contributions, none of which are over two pages in length, are the merest sketches, and, with possibly one or two exceptions, do not show much originality. The only article of any length is a most appropriately titled story, "Love-in-Idleness," by W. W. Justice, Jr. It is interesting and well-written, but it gives the impression of being an outline more than a finished sketch. The incidents are not worked up, nor is there enough action. On the other hand, the writer...