Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will give a reception to the thirty men recently elected to membership from the Senior and Junior classes in the Trophy Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 6.30 o'clock. President Lowell will present keys to the new members and P. B. Potter '14 will read an historical sketch of the Harvard Chapter...
...Hill furnishes an illuminating sketch of the history of the interpretative ballet as it has been developed in recent years, chiefly by the Russians; and gives an account of the adoption of this form in France, notably by Debusay in his "Jeux," and in Germany, where it is being taken up by Richard Strauss...
...germs of Red Blood and Sex have luckily spread no further. Mr. Pichel's story about "Miss Clearwater's Morals" threatens to lead us into the literary red-light district, but turns out to be only a clever conversational sketch, strained and obscure in places, but entertaining throughout. Mr. Nathan, in going from drama to verse, leaves sex subjects and gives us poetry of real descriptive power and contageous feeling. Mr. Skinner and Mr. Selders both contribution sensible articles of protest: Mr. Skinner against the misleading rhetoric of those who preach "progress" and care not whether they are progressing...
...most recent biographies of note and one that should be of interest to every Harvard man, is the "Letters and Recollections of Alexander Agassiz; With a Sketch of His Life and Work," edited by his son, G. R. Agassiz '84. The biography is unique and extremely entertaining. It could hardly be improved upon, for it gives a vivid idea of a great man's personality and of the amazing work which he accomplished...
...fifty-seventh volume of the Harvard Monthly opens with a sufficiently varied number,--a "homily" on "Harvard Indifference," three short editorials, a sketch of an Italian salt ship in a page or so, five bits of verse, and three stories...