Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sketch of the more important reviews founded between...
...account of the Hasty Pudding Club's Centennial, which is the most interesting article of the number from the undergraduate's point of view, contains the "Historical Sketch," by Lloyd McKim Garrison '88; Poem, by John T. Wheelwright '76; The Pudding Song, which tells how the club was formed by a Puritan and a "Choctaw Indian"; Speech, by the Hon. Joseph H. Choate '52; and Ode, by Benjamin A. Gould...
...Dykenspoop on Golf," by Clay Arthur Pierce is a spirited sketch. It shows in a humorous way how utterly incomprehensible golf terms are to the uninitiated...
...lecturer next turned his attention to the prose writers, beginning with Gogol, the founder of the Russian naturalistic school. After an interesting and sarcastic sketch of the aristocratic tendencies of the time, the speaker gave a pathetic picture of Gogol's character, illustrating his literary physiognomy by a fine fragment from his "Dead Souls." The new elements brought into literature by Gogol can be expressed in one word: he was the first who made people feel ashamed of life. With Gogol, literature in Russia ceased to be a monopoly of the drawing room, and becomes the property of the nation...
...gave an account of one of Poushkin's most characteristic creations-a novel in verse: "Eugene Oneguin,"-with an interesting sketch of the literary aspect presented by Russian society of the first decade of our century. The chief chacteristic of Poushkin's lyric poetry was harmoniousness and many sidedness. Equally excellent, said the speaker, was the poet in picturing human sorrow or human joy. One never goes without the other, and, to express the poet's complexity, the lecturer characterizes it as "pouring rain with brilliant sunshine." He endeavored to give his hearers an impression of Poushkin's language...