Word: themes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...feature of the current number of the Advocate is the verse. Of the seven poems here printed the most successful is perhaps Mr. Willcox's "Philanderer", partly because the theme is definite, partly because it is not over-ambitions. Of Mr. Norris's "Lines," the best...
...still subtler musical' effects. What they give us is rather vague prose, spoiled by inversions. Mr. Denison's "Sonnet" has a good tenth line spoiled by an unmetrical eleventh, and is somewhat over-weighted by the simile in the octave. In his "Night Song," Mr. Sanger has an interesting theme, but does not keep quite close enough...
...training of officers afforded by summer military camps is a long needed preparation in case of war and an insurance against it, not a promotion of militarism, was the theme set forth in the speeches of President Lowell, Major-General Wood, M.D., '84, Brigadier-General C. H. Cole, and J. A. L. Blake '02 at the meeting in the Union last night. The great need of trained officers, and the inefficiency of present military commanders in many parts of our service, are facts emphasized by all of the speakers, and especially by General Wood and General Cole, who are both...
Admirably miscellaneous in content, the current number of the Advocate would be worth nothing if only for the unexpected variety of the sketches and the poems. Only one worn theme appears. In "Instans Tyrannus" the author's occasional success in humorous phrasing gives only partial vitality to a rather cheap and bromidic sketch. The description of "The Round Up" by Mr. Fleming is vivid in spots and needs only a greater trimness of style to be even more effective. In his sketch after Tolstoi, Mr. Amory has achieved success in the difficult art of intelligent parody. The picture of Adam...
...technique and the powerful "punch." It is not as "light" a story as the preface promises; for it concerns itself with the tragedy of a working girl, who was foolish enough to fall in love with a University student, and to Ibsen herself into an early grave. The theme is well handled...