Word: sketching
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...March number of the Graduates' Magazine contains as leading features three admirable biographical sketches of the late John Codman Ropes, written by C. F. Adams '56, Solomon Lincoln '57, and J. C. Gray '59, and originally prepared for a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and a less intimate but equally interesting and appreciative sketch of the late Gen. Lawton, by W. G. Brown '91. The other special articles are "Migration," by R. M. Alden A. M. '96; a review and brief summary of "Professor Royce's Gifford Lectures," recently published, by Richard C. Cabot '89; a brief history...
Professor Palmer delivered the first of the series of William Belden Noble lectures in Phillips Brooks House last night, his subject being "Ethics and the Descriptive Sciences." He prefaced his address with a sketch of the life of William Noble. He graduated from Harvard in 1885 and then entered the Divinity School. During his student days and later he was harassed by sickness, and he died before his life work had fairly begun. Such a course of lectures as this was thought to be the best means of giving expression to his aims and ideals...
Still less convincing is J. G. Forbes' "Two Points of View." The matter is not original, the treatment reminiscent, the atmosphere uncertain. The sketch, however, is not lacking in good points and some of the repartee has a very collegiate tone--"What's the use of a roommate if you can't insult him?" Jack asks Bill. To which Bill meekly replies he's glad to be of use. The characters for so slight a composition are sketched with considerable skill...
...City Editor," by G. H. Montague '01, is no more than a sketch, though carefully and consistently done...
...Charity" is the only story in the number which can attempt to reach the sympathies of an undergraduate. Here the reader is brought into the spirit of the story in a sketch which has the real College tone...