Word: writer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...point where he thus drops an unfinished situation his workmanship in this most trying field is admirable. This is a case, I imagine, of decided gifts waiting for material on which to work. Travel papers are not a favorable form in which to reveal what is special to the writer. Those of Arminius show culture and intelligence, but on the question of the author's talent are not illuminating. About the verse I shall not attempt to write, being poorly equipped. "Their Salad Days" seemed to me more typical of college fiction generally than of the Monthly in particular...
...whole well-planned. "The Crafty Mrs. Carton," by E. B. Sheldon '08, despite its hackneyed theme, is marked notably by wit and artistic restraint. "A Sermon for Lent, by F. Schenck '09, is original, thoughtful, and pointed. "Romola," by H. Powel, Jr., '08, shows narrative power in the writer, but needs revision. As has been hinted above, however, none of the verse in the number deserves particular praise...
Major Darwin is a well-known writer on subjects of Political Economy and has written books on Bimetallism and Municipal Trading. He has served as major with the Royal Engineers in England and has acted as lecturer in some of the military engineering schools there...
...Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize should be left at University 5, the office of the Secretary of Arts and Sciences, by April 13. Competing poems should not exceed 50 lines, should bear an assumed name, and should be accompanied by a sealed letter containing the true name of the writer, and superscribed with the assumed name...
...contend that it would be necessarily advisable for the University teams concerned in the major sports, to leave the Union. As a previous writer has well said, "the Union has proved in all ways satisfactory as the home of the training table." But for the larger needs of the minor and class team tables which the Union cannot accommodate, Memorial Hall offers an opportunity for a satisfactory training table, at cost. C. C. COLBY...