Word: theme
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...pleasant sketch of a not very ingenious sort. The plot is conventional and the characters are common place. The writer shows an extensive acquaintance with Boston "taverns," and some slight knowledge of girls. In "The Tin Goddess," L. D. Humphrey '01 contributes a story of the expanded daily theme type. "A Serious Question" is a choice bit of realistic description, greatly marred by an anti-climax...
Very different from "Counterfeiting," is J. A. Graydon's delightful Irish dialect story, "In the Study." Throughout this yarn there is a great deal of characterization, and in the homely, wholesome sayings of Terry, an Irish peasant, there is much "horse sense." The theme of the story is, of course, love; but there is nothing commonplace in the way in which this very conventional subject is treated. The phrasing used is slightly precocious, but this--if anything--adds to the charm of the story. In style, "In the Study" is the equal of any story which has appeared...
...Twentieth Century Club's course of lectures on the theme of "Development of Educational Ideas and Institutions," two lectures will be given by Harvard professors. One will be delivered Feb. 24 by Professor Hanus on "Secondary Education and Its Development," and the other on March 8 by Professor Royce on "The Development of the Social Mind...
...annual Ingersoll lecture on the Immortality of Man was delivered last night in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum by Professor Josiah Royce, Ph.D. As the special theme for his discourse, Professor Royce took "The Conception of Immortality." He spoke in substances as follows...
...writer used exposition or description there is always color and atmosphere. Towards the close of the story there are numerous little touches of humor, of which only a very few sound strained. "There's Just One Girl," by Edward Richard, is a frail story of the expanded daily theme type, which, while it shows a good deal of cleverness of an observant sort, proves beyond doubt that the writer has no knowledge of human nature. In "Old and New," J. H. Cabot, 2nd, '00, undertakes to delineate the character of a Casco Bay "islander," and fails completely. "Perquisites," by John...