Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...stories, "The Missing Volume" has possibilities of which the author does not take full advantage. It should have been done with greater subtlety, the ending especially, which is the obvious. The sketch itself is fairly original, and by no means badly done, but the style is unfortunately loose and somewhat careless. "Freshmen and Philanthropy," while somewhat conventional in certain respects, is decidedly amusing, and it contains something of a moral, which, however, is never allowed to become intrusive. It is decidedly better than the other college story. "Histrionics," which does not rise above the average undergraduate medley of athlete, gullible...
...December number of the Graduates' Magazine, which appears today, opens with a biographical sketch of the late Professor C. C. Langdell, former Dean of the Law School. Professor Langdell's work during the transition period of the school when, through his efforts, that branch of the University grew from a small, poorly organized affair with a poor Faculty and a worse library to "a great school in a great University;" and the early difficulties which Professor Langell encountered in his attempts to introduce the now widely used "case system" of studying law, are interestingly described. Following is a timely characterization...
...mandolin. A melody of popular airs with ridiculous verses, sung by Fitzgerald and Gilday, was well received. The Labakans performed many ludicrous gymnastic feats, but their little black and tan "Folly" quite outdid them. Rogers, the singer, was much appreciated and Hawthorne and Burt gave a laughable little sketch, in which Burt told of his economies and their disastrous results. Devoy and Miller volunteered to show how to tumble under difficulties...
...program includes the following acts: Arthur Fisher, impersonator; Fitzgerald and Gilday, conversationalists and parodists; the Labakans, grotesque gymnasts, and their dog "Folly"; Rogers and Deely presenting their original conception "The Singer and his Valet"; Hawthorne and Burt in their comical sketch "And I Laughed"; the biograph, including pictures of the Harvard-Cambridge boat-race last summer...
...program includes the following: Arthur Fisher, impersonator; Fitzgerald and Gilday, conversationalists and parodists; The Labakans, grotesque gymnasts, and their dog "Folly;" Rogers and Deely presenting their original conception "The Singer and his Valet;" Hawthorne and Burt in their comical sketch "And I Laughed;" the biograph, including the picture of the Harvard and Cambridge boat race...