Word: writer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...other point which the writer of the communication touched upon deserves consideration, although not such flagrant examples of this fault as of the other have come to our notice. But certainly if there are men who are tempted to make the struggle about the Tree an occasion for settling old scores, they should learn to choose some other place to do their fighting. The object of the tree exercises is to get the flowers, not to mutilate the next man, and the exercises ought always to be kept within gentemanly bounds. A certain amount of "scrapping" is, as the writer...
...writer of the communication which we print in another column has touched on an important question, and one which the Class Day Committee is fortunately taking in hand. For a number of years past the exercises around the Tree on Class Day have been marred by spectacles which border closely on the disgraceful. The extent to which the struggles for the flowers have been carried may be well enough when there is no one in the question but men, but to the crowd of ladies who are gathered to watch the sport the sight cannot help becoming now and then...
...professorship of literature has been established at Columbia, with Brander Matthews, the well known writer, as its first occupant...
...poems he sometimes lacks breadth and opinion, and often they have too much of a prose quality. As a historian he showed considerable power in his Porte Royale, an article on the religious movement of the seventeenth century. But he was first and last a critic. With him the writer was regarded as an individual, and he thought the first duty of the critic was to know him. It was an excellent method, but it was one apt to give, instead of criticism, too many incidents of the author. In general tone his criticisms are happy and good natured...
...poems two are especially prominent, the Recollections of Arabian Knights and Marianna. In 1833 Tennyson published his second volume with The Lady of Shalott as its first poem. These two volumes mark the lyrical period of his life. After 1833 came the idyllic period. He was an ideal descriptive writer, and from now on his touches of nature were especially delicate. In 1847 appeared The Princess, which dealt with the nature of man and woman. In 1850 he published his In Memoriam, which can be compared to nothing else in poetry. It was not till 1875 that Tennyson appeared...