Word: writer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...leading article in the November Monthly is a vigorous plea for the betterment of athletics in the University; the writer urges that, as Harvard cannot move for reform till she is victorious, the thing to do at present is to win. There are three prose stories--all with good points. "The Voice of Mastery" describes a conflict between the sense of obligation to the marriage vow and passion for a woman who recognizes and inspires the man's literary ambition. The analysis of the man's feminine poetical temperament (represented as sometimes stimulated by preprandial cognac) is careful; the style...
...Dole is well known both as a writer and a theologian. He graduated from Harvard in 1868 and took the Master's degree in 1870. He then entered the Andover Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1872. He was professor of Greek at the University of Vermont until 1874, where he accepted a call to a Portland church; from here he went to the First Congregational Church of Jamaica Plain, which charge he still holds. In June he received from Bowdoin the honorary degree of D.D. His appointment as Ingersoll Lecturer was announced on June 3, 1906. Among...
...English, and was taught to hate and distrust the white men. Later he went to school and college. He attended Beloit and Knox Colleges and is a graduate of Dartmouth and of Boston University. For the last fifteen years he has been a physician, a missionary, and a writer, and is a speaker of wide experience. Among his books are "Indian Boyhood," and "Red Hunters and Animal People." The lecturer is the only North American Indian giving lectures and is the ablest living exponent of Sioux life and character...
...should try to penetrate the mist of allusion thrown around it. "Sketchy" is the word that comes inevitably to mind as one reads these stories, even though there be in them good characterization and some telling phrase. Good touches like this in "A Committee of Three" are frequent. The writer says of a three cornered conversation: "Two is company, but three is a difficult peculiarity. In order for a group of three to talk comfortably there must be a leader, a follower, and a sharpshooter." The editorials touch briefly on "The Harvard Man Again" and "The Amateur Spirit." They...
...prize of $100, to be awarded to the writer of the best composition in concerted vocal music. This competition is open to undergraduates, and the members of any graduate school of the University. Compositions must be submitted before April...