Word: sketching
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...poem, also unsigned, is a clever bit of versification -- nothing more. "The Eagle," by Roy Pier, is pleasing in conception and imagery, but halting in its rhythm. "On Lafayette Square," a prose article by R. Inglis, which concludes the number, is a good attempt at a difficult character sketch...
...current number of the Monthly appeals strongly to the reader at the start. "The Story of John Reilly, Teamster," which is signed "1883" is a vivid sketch based on a tragedy of family life--the mistaken striving of an Irish girl toward a life which was too dazzling for her ignorance to resist, and the savage grief of her disappointed brother. "In the Thirsty Land" by Rowland Thomas takes its color from the South African war, but it is by no means a common place treatment. Simple pathos is interwoven with a powerful description of the mazes of a wounded...
...Turn in the Way," by C. R. Saunders '01, is an interesting analysis of the train of thought of the college man who shrinks at the sudden realization that the world's work is before him. The sketch is artistically clothed with a whispering summer night but it is unsatisfying, because it is issueless...
...humor on familiar connection with undergraduate life; but in many more, this connection is assumed to furnish amusement unassisted. The "Specimen Conference" in History 1 fails for this reason, and wanders along, overshooting the mark, when a little more skill would have made it entertaining. The maudlin sketch, "At the Freshman Dinner" is live enough to read with more interest...
...connection with the Senior Class Album, there will be published this year for the first time a Harvard Class Book, similar to those issued each year at Yale, Princeton and Columbia. The book will serve as a key to the Class Album, its main purpose being to have a sketch of the college career of each man in the Senior Class, whose picture appears in the Album. These sketches will necessarily be short, but will include the chief events in each man's College life, and the main activities with which he has been connected...