Word: woman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first of a series of articles on wrestling is contributed by E. Hitchcock, Jr. The writer tells us something of the similarity of ancient and modern wrestling which is quite instructive. Another instructive article on "Women and their Cameras" is by Margaret Bisland. We are told how a woman can begin and perfect herself in photography and how many of them have done so. Athletics in Washington, by Herbert Janvrin Browne, is a useful contribution of some historic value. Besides these are several pleasant contributions on yachting, shooting, canoeing, cycling; besides something about the "National Guard of Minnesota...
...Woman receives a fair share of attention. Amelia Gere Mason's "Women of the French Salons" discusses those of the eighteenth century, and Helen Gray Cone discusses "Woman in American Literature...
...ingen uousness that reminds one that a horse chestnut may be proved a chestnut horse. "The Typical American," by Andrew Lang and Max O'Rell, is of the very frothiest substance. but the Lang half has a sparkle which the O'Rell one is totally without. "Audacity in Woman Novelises," by George Parsons Lathrop, is partly a reply to Mrs. Amelia E. Barr's "Corversational Immoralities" in the April number, and wholly an acknowledgement of woman's continually increasing position and power in fiction and the upon the whole salutary influence of that position. "The Hatred of England," by Goldwin...
...Walther one must understand the peculiar social and mental conditions of the century in which he lived. A great interest had just been aroused in the "new chivalry," as it was called-a chivalry in which the fundamental idea was "Frauendiens," the devotion of a knight to some married woman-a devotion which need not be, and was seldom, returned by the noble "Frau." At first this "Frauendiens" was very attractive to Walther, and he wrote many exquisite poems in praise of this love, which seemed so noble and unselfish. But later Walther saw the folly and immorality...
...Tavern last Saturday evening, with G. P. Wardner, '90, in the chair. The toasts were: C. W. Willard, '91, Phi Beta Kappa; R. D. Brown, '90, Class of Ninety; F. S. Duncan, '90, Constitution of the United States; H. A. Davis, '91, Class of Ninety-one; K. McKenzie, '91, Woman; and T. N. Robinson, '91, What we are here for. The members present signed a petition requesting more liberty in the election of members of the Phi Beta Kappa, and this petition will be presented at the next annual meeting of the society...