Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Crepuscule," by Mr. Hillyer, is a pretty conception prettily worked out. The verse runs well and the reminiscences of older English poetic diction (in a good sense) are not unpleasing. The other verse contributions in the number are of less interest. Mr. Snow's "Episode of Reincarnation" shows some skill in using devices which are almost foredoomed to failure in English metre. With reference to Mr. Auslander's "Maybe in Years to Come," one feels like asking whether the lines about "inarticulate years" and "lovely silences that yearn to music" seem to the author to be an extraordinarily simple greeting...
...third meet of the season for the University team, Bowdoin and Springfield Y. M. C. A. having been defeated. The Pennsylvania swordsmen are all veterans and will make the Crimson fencers show their best to win. Patterson, the leader of the Pennsylvania team, is a fencer of great skill and the match between him and Captain W. H. Russell '18 will bring together two of the best college fencers in the country. E. R. Gay '19 and R. G. Crimmins '19 with Captain Russell will make up the University team, while the visiting team will be composed...
...lively; but it contains a nine-syllabled verse, and an Alexandrine. The latter can scarcely be intentional, since it is not the final verse. The sonnet form is so exacting that it is seriously damaged by stray lines which violate the meter. Mr. Henderson's sonnet exhibits only moderate skill. Of all the sonnets, Mr. Nelson's has the best versification; but it is disappointing in that the thought of the sestet and the relation of the sestet to the octave are not clearly brought...
...prose is on the whole better than the verse. The anonymous "Note on Carlyle," whether its doctrine is acceptable or not, shows competence and vigor. Mr. Fisher's "Lanky" is an unusually good story, exhibiting in a small space some skill in plot, character, setting and surprise. Mr. Scholle's "Fair at Lausanne," which in its paragraphing recalls the Boston American, is alive with good detail. Mr. Fay's "On Keeping a Diary" gives an impression of quaintness without affection, and abundance without waste. Of the editorials on the proposals of peace, the second is the more striking. The review...
...hockey team which will face Princeton tomorrow evening will present the strongest possible front. Thacher scrimmaged in his old position of coverpoint on team A yesterday afternoon and seemed none the worse for his enforced absence. Both he and Captain, Morgan were fast down the rink and displayed much skill carrying the puck...