Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...editor of the Harvard Advocate condemns a sketch in our last number as "indecent in conception and disgusting in matter...
...replying to this second charge we cannot find the details of our unvarnished sketch so "disgusting" that they try our powers of aesthetic endurance beyond the limits of legitimate literary enjoyment...
Professor Wendell's latest work, entitled "Essays on Shakspeare," was published last week. It comprises an introduction, a biographical sketch, a critical view of the plays and poems in about the chronological order now assigned to them by all authorities, a notably interesting chapter on the sonnets, a general summing-up and a well-made index...
...subject matter is very interesting even to those not connected with the Prospect Union. Professor Peabody gives a brief but comprehensive sketch of the "Aims and Work of the Prospect Union." John Graham Brooks has written short summaries of the first two of the course of lectures on economics which he is giving at the Union. The two other leading articles are "The New Trade Unionism," by Robert A. Woods of the Andover House, Boston, and "Social Settlements in the United States," by Mr. Ely, president of the Union. Both of them are interesting and well worth being read...
...Leavitt will give an historical sketch of Pumping Machinery to the society this evening at 7.45 o'clock, in room...