Word: sketch
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...appreciative sketch of Mrs. Agassiz, the first president of Radcliffe, a review of Professor James's "Pragmatism," which ought to arouse curiosity and interest in every one who is troubled by ideas that refuse to be cleared up, and an article by Professor Richards on "The New Outlook in Chemistry," pointing out some of the great advances yet to be made in chemical research, are the remaining longer prose articles. Besides these we have ex-Governor Long's speech for the semi-centennial of the class of 1857, so charming that one can only regret that it is so short...
Second place in the Magazine is given to an unsigned biographical sketch of the late Wendell Phillips Garrison, who was editor of the Nation from 1865 to 1906. The high service to American letters which the Nation has performed since its establishment, is shown to have been due in large measure to Mr. Garrison's scrupulous fidelity, his success in enlisting the friendly co-operation of a large and able staff of contributors, and his constant striving toward literary perfection in form and substance...
...Grind" would be "The Cad." It is to be hoped that students like Thurman are as remote from reality as the New England villagers he describes. "The Serious-Minded Student" takes himself so solemnly as to be fair game for his mates; but though the species is known, the sketch leaves the reader wondering whether this particular individual ever existed. Mr. Powel's "Influence of the Comic Opera" is a clever skit, the humor of which would move even the Serious-Minded Student to laughter...
...fiction in this number of the Advocate, Mr. Frederick Moore's sketch "Adam and Eva, deserves first mention. It is a study of local color and character so truthful in substance and treatment that one is uncertain whether it is rightly classed under the head of fiction. The material is of the slightest; on a hot summer night a student involuntarily in Cambridge, amuses himself on the steps of his dormitory by engaging in conversation three little street waifs that chance by. The atmosphere is admirably reproduced by a few telling lines and the children are treated with something...
Though in the number as a whole there is perhaps nothing so insignificant as entirely and immediately to escape one's memory after reading, there are only two pieces that have elements of power-Mr. Moore's sketch and Mr. Wheelock's sonnet. In both the strength lies in the authors having something vital to express. T. HALL...