Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...bulk of the undergraduate contributions are evenly divided between essay, sketch, picture, story, and verse. Mr. B. P. Clark's "Fancies" is an excellent example of the new freedom in verse that is opening up much inner spirit, even though it sacrifices part of the poet's charm. "The Copper Duke," by Robert G. Dort, has not enough atmosphere or excitement about it to make a banal invention into an exhilarating plot. Mr. Skinner's "Courtesy of War," a sketch of a French village in war time, has more cultured ease in the telling than the subject can stand...
...Tormo the Trout" by Mr. Weston is a daintily worded and slightly mystie sketch of the sort that is pleasant to read but which leaves no particular impression on the reader's mind. Mr. McCormick's vivid study based on a shipwreck makes a definite impression. So little emphasis is laid on the first phase of the story, however, that the plot does not receive the full benefit of the sharp contrast as the character develops...
...moral of the sketch "Discretion Is--" were followed, the verse in this number would be dismissed with the observation that verse is, after all, a matter "de gustibus." The criticism that is here made may be taken for what it is worth. The success of the first piece seems to be marred by the clumsy way in which the lines are broken up. The second piece does not escape the conventional either in spirit or form, and the last piece leaves us with no clearer impression than that the author has indulged in sentimental fancies. Judged even by the usual...
...short sketch of the history of the Panama Canal Zone from the time of Columbus down and unusual pictures and incidents of the actual work of construction were presented by Mr. F. W. Davis, fellow of the National Geographic Society, in the Union last night...
...cloth binding bearing a sketch of the Johnston Gate, the Harvard seal and the title make it a very attractive volume. It is essentially an undergraduate product with no official connection. Every effort has been and will be made to distribute it throughout the country...