Word: themes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...sixty-third annual meeting of the Massachusetts Teachers' Association will be held today and tomorrow in Huntington Hall, Boston. The general theme to be discussed by the convention is "The Improvement of the Status of the Teacher." This morning at 10 o'clock, President Eliot will address the convention on the subject: "The Financial Remuneration of the Teacher...
...reflects seriously both on the author and the editors that the third sentence should begin, "Being told, his face flushed." Contributors to the Monthly have usually been past this stage. Mr. A. W. Murdoch's dramatic sketch, "In a Park," seems to me a mistake in form. The theme would have lent itself better to treatment in a short story, where the author could, by more narrative and description, have helped the reader to visualize the scene with more ease...
...current number of the Advocate commend the project to set up a memorial to Dean Shaler in the Union, and propose the formation of a University dramatic association to produce modern English plays. Mr. Bowles' short story, "All in the Same Boat," is a new variation on an old theme, treated in melodramatic fashion. In the other piece of fiction, by Mr. Edgar, a more experienced hand is recognized in both construction and narration. A title more significant than "The Grind" would be "The Cad." It is to be hoped that students like Thurman are as remote from reality...
...skill to develop; and it is written in an ejaculatory style, tiresome event for two pages. In "The Landing of an English Snob," an idea not very humorous in itself is treated with some incidental humorous touches. All three stories share in various degree the common defect of seeming theme-like and manufactured...
Among the poems, the most ambitious is J. H. wheelock's "Paris and Oenone," a remarkably successful attempt to treat a Greek theme in a Greek manner, even to the Introduction of a chorus. The verse is somewhat uneven, but the poem as a whole is well sustained and the handling of the chorus and the difficult stichomythia is unusually good. As a minor point it may be noted that the characterization of Paris as the "husband of Helen of Troy, mortally wounded by the arrow of Philoctetes" and of Oenone as "a demi-goddess--who can heal mortal wounds...