Word: writer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...editorial of the current number of the Advocate sets a criterion for contributions which it is sincerely to be hoped will be held to in future. The writer classes a large proportion of his contributions as "Soft Melancholy, Dull Despairing and Dramatically Tragic." He might have added Weirdly Foolish and Sentimentally Tiresome. Unfortunately many past stories of the Advocate have been one or all of these...
...rather amusing little dialogue, R. T. Fisher '98 a slight but well-written sketch, and A. G. Fuller 1900 a fairly successful attempt at weirdness of effect. Besides these, two and a half pages are occupied with an exposition on mountain climbing which might be of interest to the writer. The Kodaks and the poetry are about as good as usual, and, with a short but rather ambitious story describing the troubles of married life, complete the number...
Today's CRIMSON contains a communication concerning Tuesday's election of directors. Most people would agree that the directors should be "firm and subservient" but the writer is either prejudiced or uninformed when he says that the "waiters cannot, on account of their position, act independently." Some of this year's board most ready to advocate change and most openly "unsubservient" have been waiters. There has never been any strong feeling of common interest or any solid organization of the men who wait at the Foxcroft Club and there never will be unless it is produced artificially by such senseless...
...John Ruggles, '36, died late Thursday night at his home in Brookline. After graduating at Harvard he became a teacher and a writer for various magazines. He was principal of the Marblehead Academy for a long time, and later held positions as master of the Brighton High School and of the Taunton High School...
...privilege of hearing a course of lectures by M. Ferdinand Brunetiere of the French Academy. M. Brunetiere is unquestionably in the very first rank of living critics; he has given us, in pure and eloquent French, his own observations on Moliere, whom he considers to be the greatest writer of the most glorious century in French literature...