Word: topics
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...three shorter articles, "Sans Adieu," by T. S. Hardy '99, is easily the best. This sketch deals intelligently and feelingly with the topic about which ninety-five per cent. of modern French novels are written. R. C. Bolling 1900, the author of "In Alien Earth," has proved that a short story may be on the subject of water-rotted corpses without being essentially morbid. Somehow or other "The Disappointment of Lord Hartleigh," by E. W. S. Pickhardt '98, with all its facility, fails to interest...
...short theme daily, and of a longer theme twice a week: the former to cover not more than one page of theme paper; the latter not less than three pages nor more than six. During the first half of the course, the bi-weekly themes will deal with unconnected topics; during the second half, they will develop continuously a single topic. Both the daily and the bi-weekly themes are intended to furnish, as far as possible, the conditions most favorable to the development of individuality in thought and expression...
...wish to draw attention to a topic treated at some length in the editorial of the last Monthly. An appeal is there made for a better system of arrangement of new buildings as they are presented from time to time. The special occasion for the appeal is the selection of a location for the Brooks House, which is to be placed in the corner between Stoughton and Holden Chapel. Another selection of a site has recently been made. Randall Hall, the new eating-house which is to accommodate 600 men, is to be placed on Kirkland St., east of Memorial...
Mayor Quincy will address the Cambridge Prospect Union this evening at 7.45, on a topic connected with municipal government. The lecture will be given in the hall of the Union, 744 Massachusetts avenue, Cambridgeport. Admission will be free to men. Harvard men are invited...
...effort to get an expression of undergraduate opinion, to which Mr. Wrightington alludes, was made two years ago. Three means were then employed: personal conversation and correspondence with a large number of college men; the assignment of the University Club as a topic for themes in English course, and a blue-book canvass. The result was an overwhelming expression of thoughtful student opinion in favor of the project. Nearly twelve hundred signed the blue-books at once. There was some thoughtful opinion against the plan, based chiefly on the question of practicability, but without ignoring the very small minority...