Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...devoted to a general reception in the Committee Room, at which President A. L. Lowell '77 will present keys to the new members and batons to the recently elected marshals, C. H. Haberkorn, Jr., '12 and J. G. Gilkey '12. C. H. Haberkorn will also read a short historical sketch of the Society, covering both the University and other chapters...
...Irish Players, rest their souls! continue to obsess the undergraduate Extreme Left. In the very slender current issue of the Advocate we are blessed with a burlesque of Synge, a parallel sketch of "The Scottish Players," and, as a communication, a defence of "The Playboy." Acknowledging the fidelity of the Advocate as a mirror of what most engages the literary consciousness of undergraduates, when it is pointed out that an editorial paragraph discusses the Harvard Prize Play, and three other pages bristle with reviews of plays in Boston, this seems to be going a bit strong. Particularly as there...
...spontaneous satire of this sketch is that irresponsible wit of undergraduates which is usually ignorant, sometimes cheap, yet often the arrow to the bull's-eye. When the Advocate wishes to be amusing it can be the most so in this vein. Otherwise, the issue invites the remark of a biographer of Hawthorne in the period when that author was journalizing over the progress of his cabbages and carrots: "There seemed to be a general vacancy in the range of his vision...
...mind. As Unitarian minister, as mob leader, as captain of the 51st Massachusetts Volunteers, and as colonel of the first colored regiment of actual slaves enlisted as Union soldiers; as reformer, and as author--essayist, romancer, and poet--Colonel Higginson was a man to know; and the sketch of his career and the tribute by Edward H. Hall '51 will help us to know...
Another prominent member of the class to which Justice Holmes belongs was the late Henry Pickering Bowditch: "soldier and scholar-teacher and friend." The brief biographical sketch by Dr. Harold C. Ernst '76 is timely and just. Dr. Bowditch by birth, by breeding, and by serviceableness represented the quintessence of Massachusetts culture and citizenship, whose consistent but unostentatious motto was ich dien...