Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting held last evening the Harvard Sketch Club was organized with thirty members, and the following officers were elected: President, Alfred K. Moe '97; vice-president, T. M. Hastings 2 S.; secretary, S. L. Pitts '97; treasurer, C. H. L. Johnston...
...attempts at the novellete. They should, on the contrary, restrict the time of the story to a short space, and nothing like development of character should be attempted. Conspicuous examples of the best sort of short stories observe this unity of character and give the reader a glimpse, a sketch, an episode, rather than any essay toward elaborate portrayal of persons or events. Thus, Mr. Hardy has been less successful in the tales entitled "Fellow Travellers," "Interlopers at the Knap," and in others that might be named, than would have been expected from a writer of his imagination and other...
...history of Harvard in the fifties is too voluminous to treat of in a single hour, so I propose to give but a slow sketch...
...Harvard in the Sixties," by H. G. Palfrey, is interesting. The reader is surprised at all the great changes which thirty years have wrought. The Turk Fighter is a clever sketch. It describes the ingenius way the inhabitants of a certain Hungarian village have of treating their shrews. These two articles and the latter of the "Two Sketches" are the only things that are worth reading in the number. None of the other contents has the slightest excuse for publication, except that of filling space...
...sketch of the development of the newspaper in England since...