Word: womans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...altogether a graft from French stock, such writings as Zola's "Contes a Nanon," Guyde Maupassant's somewhat vile anecdotes, and Balzac's "Contes Drolatiques" being its progenitors. And as of the short stories, so of the novels. Balzac seems to me the first novelist who could dissect a woman. Defoe tried to analyze a woman of the lower grade in Roxana, and Peregrine Pickle is such another monument of failure. But it was Balzac who first traversed this dark - or should I say fair - continent...
...gerel rendering of a German poem. Next is an essay on "Count Tolstoi and Modern Realism," in which the writer, after saying that Balzac tried to crush the life out of French prose - Balzac, the one man to me who can understand and describe the emotions of a woman - that the French revolution "overthrew in one vast ruin Church, State and literature," in which latter word seems to be included not only Montesquieu, Voltaire and J. J. Rousseau, who, by the way, led the revolution, but also the German writers, Lessing. Schiller, Goethe. The latter, I may add, like...
...Woman's Journal, commenting on the new college to be founded at Princeton for the education of female students, says: - "To prevent the manifestations of rowdyism which every now and then break out at Princeton and other exclusively masculine colleges, the presence of girl students would do more than the police. It is safe to say that under the separate system the young men and women will think more about each other in a morbid way and there will be more attempts at clandestine correspondence and flirtation, than if they met each other every day naturally and simply...
...will be seen on perusal, "The Prayer of the Presidents being Washington's New-Year Aspiration," etc., is an unsetarian amplification of the Lord's Prayer, and peculiarly of practical use to every earnest young man and woman in this age and country. The Critic says...
...Penal Laws' of this early code are rigorous in the extreme, covering twenty-four sections of one chapter. This is in marked contrast to the present spirit which has not excluded the mention of a penalty in connection with any particular irregularity. A student masquerading "in woman's apparel" was liable to expulsion. "If any scholar unnecessarily frequents taverns." "profanely curse, swear," "play at cards or dice" he was liable to a fine for a fresh offence and to all the terrors of the law for continuance in his misdemeanor. "No person of what degree soever residing in the college...