Word: writer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...invite all members of the University to contribute to this column, but we are not responsible for the sentiments expressed. Every communication must be accompanied by the name of the writer...
...November number of the Monthly contains as its leading article a discussion by Dean Shaler of "The 'Bloody Monday' Question." The writer makes a strong plea for the discontinuance of the annual Sophomore-Freshman rush; the arguments he uses are forceful and are likely to be convincing to the under-graduate body if regard for old custom is not too strong for the judgments of cool reasoning...
...incorporated into a curious jogging, jingling rhythm mor eappropriate to a description of a sleigh-ride, for instance, than to a poem on a serious and dignified subject. "English Light Verse of the Nineteenth Century," by H. L. Warner, is the longest article in the number. The writer begins by defining "light verse" as verse "pitched in a tone the reverse of the grand or heroic, a tone which is shattered if passion rise, or ideas soar, or the somberness becomes oppressive." With this definition in view he traces the history of development of light verse from Elizbethan times...
...Last Act," by George C. Hirst, if the only story in the number. The plot is one which requires strong handling of character and scenes to be made effective; in both the points the writer has failed and the story is weak and uninteresting in consequence...
...another poem,--unsigned--is well and pleasingly phrased. "Summer Songs," by A. D. Ficke, seems rather carelessly put together, and the effect of a number of good lines is offset by commonplace phrasing and halting rhythm; as a whole it is not up to the usual standard of the writer's work. A sonnet by W. Bynner is almost unintelligible to the average mind; perhaps the author understands...