Word: slum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time. The book is divided into two parts, the first, called "First Strokes" includes pieces written before 1882. Some of the poems notably "Sweet Sleep" and "Accusation" show good ideas and a delicate appreciation, but, as might be expected, as a whole the style is crude and unfinished. "Jerusha Slum's Trvals" is a series of letters in the Samantha Allen style of literature and "Caleb Dinsmore, Jr." is a romantic and elaborate but slightly improbable story...
...American realist and Tolstoi, which latter, after a pun on the word art, he proceeds to magnify at the expense of Daudet and Zola and Miss Austen. Because much of the experience of Zola and his contemporaries is of the gutter, much of their writing smacks of the slum, but is it the less true on that account? Because Miss Austen follows her creations with the minuteness and relentlessness of providence, is she necessarily false? It has been said that only one language can be thoroughly mastered by any one, and as the style is the man, so the language...
...mucker applies only to persons not in college. The collegiate rowdy is known as a scrub, which I think is another word originated here, though undoubtedly drawn from English sources. At Columbia a scrub is dubbed a ploot, a prune, or a plum. At Yale a peculiarly suggestive phrase, slum, is general...