Word: writer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first piece in the current number of the Monthly, "The Wise Men," suffers from diffusion. It is what might be called a Christmas Mystery, and the fundamental idea is good. But the writer seems afraid to trust the reader's imagination to see al the points of analogy with the first Christmas story, and so burdens his piece with a large number of rather unconvincing characters, and an elaboration of stage setting and appropriate music. Contrast this with "the Littles Shepherd," which comes somewhat later on. The latter is perfectly simple, but sweet and true, leaving a delightful picture...
...William Thomas Davis '42, who is known throughout the country as an orator and as a writer of Pilgrim history, died very suddenly of heart failure at his home in Plymouth last Tuesday at the age of 86. Mr. Davis is the author of "Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth" and "Pilgrim Memories of an Octogenarian." He was vice-president of the Pilgrim Society and president of the Pilgrim Society of Plymouth. For many years he has been an active and prominent citizen of Plymouth...
...print this morning a communication which reiterates the ideas which, as far as undergraduates are capable, were thoroughly threshed out last year. We are unwilling to admit that our football situation must be regulated by the extremes which the writer offers. The many advantages of intercollegiate athletics so far outweigh the minor objections which are made to them that we need hardly review the arguments which justify and call for their continuance. Suffice it to say that the interest which intercollegiate contests arouse will never accompany any intra-college sports, no matter how carefully their status is worked...
...question also whether the dialect is used quite consistently throughout. In any case, it seems regrettable that the phrase "bunched up" should occur twice in fourteen lines. E.E. Hunt's sonnet, "Cloud-land," is compact and musical, and induces in the reader a mood as sympathetic as the writer's with a rustic scene in the mountains. I could wish there were less alliteration, and a less conspicuous contrast between the homeliness of "celebrate" and "move along," and the ornateness of "snow-jacinth" or the elegance of "wain." It might be said further that a "purple vale" cannot be situated...
...article appeared in yesterday's "Boston Globe which probably caused some indignation among those who read it. Very likely the writer does not express the real opinion of any but a small portion of Harvard men. But the sentiments which are voiced after every hard-fought Yale game are enough to justify him in his conclusions. "Isn't it about time for Harvard men to stop being satisfied with creditable defeat?" With this sentence the Globe writer introduces his arraignment of our attitude toward football. The accusation angers us at first; but how is the outsider to know how bitter...