Word: writer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There are three interesting things in this number: "B. W.'s" comedy, "Sans Adieu," and a letter from J. T. Stickney '95, in defence of "Harvard Episodes." In this communication the writer asks "Why should a volume of college stories represent us as we wholly are? Do we require advertisement before the public? And was Mr. Post's book, some years since, written to make recruits? No, surely...
...Jean Jacques Rousseau that we must attribute the renovation of French literature. Now the characteristic of this writer is his leaning towards sensibility. He is mobile, restless and capricious. He believes thatinature is good, that society is bad. He introduced himself to the world in his "Confessions." It was under his influence that French literature was to undergo a great change...
...number of the Advocate which receives notice in another column is, as there stated, an attempt at an explanation of the failure of undergraduate literary work to attain a higher standard, by suggesting that it is due to lack of experiences which furnish live topics to write about. The writer says truly that experience is necessary, "for nothing is heeded which has not the ring of actual knowledge." He goes on to say that the college man exhausts his stock of college experiences in his Freshman and Sophomore years and then "grows stale...
While it may be true that the writers of today are not college-bred men, the statement that undergraduate literary work fails to attain a higher standard because the would-be writer "grows stale" seems open to doubt. Is not this failure rather due to a somewhat prevailing tendency among young writers to be ambitious to consider subjects which lie outside of their little life experiences, and to which they can at best impart but a supperficial atmosphere? To be concrete, college literature tends to be too ambitious. If the undergradate aspirant would narrow his point of view and condescend...
...down to write literature." In a man's Junior year "he overdraws his slender fund of college experiences. Next he 'goes stale,' and further effort as long as he stays in college is useless." This, howver, may not be generally accepted as the condition of the normal undergraduate writer...