Word: things
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This year the committee on the University Teas decided that it would be a pleasant thing to send every student in the University, the same formal note of invitation which is always sent to the Professors and other Officers. This invitation is for every Friday in December, January and February, as of course every one saw when he read his note...
...when their hearts were elsewhere engaged. Each decides to take the early morning train; on meeting they make the expected explanations. All these stories are well told, although the adjective is somewhat consistently overworked and the temptation to yield to cleverness is not always resisted. By far the best thing in the number is "Toodles." This account of the adventures of an incorrigible child is among the best undergraduate work I can remember. If the author can often repeat his success, he will win many readers and place them all in his debt...
Several times Newhall made successful forward passes to Macdonald and Starr. But as a general thing they were of small avail. With the exception of the first few minutes of play the ball remained for the most part in Harvard's territory...
...roses, must have been a real colonel whom its author had known and loved. In "The Sophist" we have much a variation of the perennial motif as Polonius might call the tragical-psychological. The bearer of the title-role convinces an enamored college-friend that there is no such thing as the power of love, and with such effect that "It's all over" between the friend and his affianced. The "Power," embodied in none other than the woman aforesaid, turns out to be too strong for the Sophist himself, and so justifies the title. The real stage-business...
...leading article in the November Monthly is a vigorous plea for the betterment of athletics in the University; the writer urges that, as Harvard cannot move for reform till she is victorious, the thing to do at present is to win. There are three prose stories--all with good points. "The Voice of Mastery" describes a conflict between the sense of obligation to the marriage vow and passion for a woman who recognizes and inspires the man's literary ambition. The analysis of the man's feminine poetical temperament (represented as sometimes stimulated by preprandial cognac) is careful; the style...