Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number of the Advocate contains at least one sketch ("The Cows on the Common," by R. P. Bellows) which is decidedly pleasing in its sincerity and delicacy of touch. It is a short story of the romantic order, with a tinge of the picturesque, due partly to its Colonial surroundings. The style is unpretentious and suggestive, and the impression produced is one of warmth and cheerfulness...
...other hand there have been, of course, stories both wholesome and interesting. These have presented the bright and attractive sides of college life, or of the life without the college. If imagination, they have been legitimately so, as is the sketch "Out of the Night," in the present number. In short, they are of the cheerfulness for which the Advocate now appeals. College life abounds in experiences that can be made much of. There is no reason why these should be looked at gloomily or written of morbidly. If the Advocate will keep to the standard it now sets...
...that have appeared and asks for others in a lighter and more wholesome vein, especially some that describe college life as it really is. For the rest of the number J. A. Macy '99 contributes a rather amusing little dialogue, R. T. Fisher '98 a slight but well-written sketch, and A. G. Fuller 1900 a fairly successful attempt at weirdness of effect. Besides these, two and a half pages are occupied with an exposition on mountain climbing which might be of interest to the writer. The Kodaks and the poetry are about as good as usual, and, with...
...Scull '98 has had a sketch accepted by the Atlantic Monthly...
Perhaps the most popular numbers of the evening were those given by Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith and Miss Ruth McEnery Stuart. The former is well known as the author of "Colonel Carter of Cartersville" and other delightful sketches of Southern life. He read two of the selections from "Colonel Carter" in a truly charming vein, capturing his audience completely. Miss Stuart also read one of her sketches of Southern life-"Maria's Mo'nin'." The sketch itself runs in a vein of contagious humor, and Miss Stuart read it in a manner calculated to bring out all there...