Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...velvet mask of bending night Sparkles with the sky's pale bloom," (!) is characterized by indeterminate Swinburnian sensousness with nothing of Swinburn's euphony. Mr. Norris easily surpasses the other poets. His "My Memories" is a charming trifle, while "Life" has pleasing metrical treatment and genuine simplicity of phrase
...Damon's essay on Strindberg, Schonberg, and Sibelius is praisworthy as an attempt to relate the arts, and also to help the reader to appreciate two ultra-modern composers, both of whom deserve enthusiasm. But this method of treatment, although conventional, is so frankly subjective that it seems ultra fantastic and amateurish. It is nevertheless interesting to those who received impressions of the music totally different from those expressed by Mr. Damon here. It is stimulating in that it is entirely subjective; but one must always remember that it is Mr. Damon who is speaking and not Schonberg, Strindberg...
This article, by a Harvard graduate, urges with vehemence the founding of a state university. His main argument, and indeed the argument of those who favor such a step is that Harvard and the various other colleges in the state are inadequate in their treatment of the educational problem...
...find a vagrant memory fixed in a present mood. The lines, except the second, are musical; Mr. Clark has secured his effect with rare economy of effort. The two sonnets by Mr. Norris, "An Old Story," and "Winter Sunrise," dealing with more clearly defined subjects, show more direct treatment. In form, they are slightly irregular, and suffer from a jerkiness due to the large proportion of end-stopped lines. But the description is good; and Mr. Norris is particularly felicitous in his closing lines...
Most of the authors are new comers (only one member of the board contributes) and their work promises well for the new volume. The variety of subject and treatment is especially noteworthy. They do not take themselves very seriously; they are not out to reconstruct either literature or life. Their work is the more acceptable. It is really a relief to find a college "literary" paper, which is content with being readable, lively, and light. Those of us who feel the need of "uplift" can afford to wait for Billy Sunday