Word: writer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Dickens; the scene is Class Day and the mysterious visitants are Jones and Smith of '62, wraiths who return for the edification of Wolcott and Randolph, who have deserted the bath-tubs of the Gold Coast for the traditions of Holworthy. The story is well told, save that the writer has not learned the lesson of literary temperance in keeping for another occasion lines undoubtedly clever but out of place in their present use. Jones is made to win the Victoria Cross, the Order of the Golden Fleece, and the Pasteur Medal, all in the Civil War. The introduction...
...Poetry of Edward Rowland Sill" is an interesting review, especially in its final pages. Though the style often shows an imperfect sense of the value of words, the writer's evident love of literature, his sympathy with his subject and, at times, his genuine warmth, make his work promising. His extracts from Sill's poetry are less impressive than he means them to be. "The Fool's Prayer," striking as it is, contains more truth than poetry, and would scarcely stick in the reader's mind except for the brilliant perversion at the end,--"O, Lord...
...prize will be awarded to the writer of the best composition in concerted vocal music. The competitor shall be either an undergraduate or a member of a Graduate School in Harvard University...
...title-page of each composition must bear an assumed name, and the writer must give in, with his composition, a sealed letter containing his true name and superscribed with his assumed name. The members of the committee in charge of the prize are: W. A. Locke '69, chairman, A. Foote '74, G. A. Burdett...
...Sophist himself, and so justifies the title. The real stage-business of the piece, the actual sophistry, like the killing in a Greek tragedy is done behind the scense; but that hardly concerns the critic, and the author has done cleverly what he set out to do. The writer of the account of school-boy incidents, "As Related by Mr. Reginald Richards," essays, not wholly without sucess, that spirit of virile and forceful juvenility which appeals to us all in "Tom Sawyer;" the fun, however, is meagre and the piece too young by several years; it belongs rather...