Word: writer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...most appropriately titled story, "Love-in-Idleness," by W. W. Justice, Jr. It is interesting and well-written, but it gives the impression of being an outline more than a finished sketch. The incidents are not worked up, nor is there enough action. On the other hand, the writer is to be congratulated upon his good taste, especially in his descriptions of nature...
...other contributions, "The Moss Garden" and "Lost or Found" are perhaps the most interesting, partly because of the fact that, although very similar in subject, they are treated entirely differently. The writer of the first exhibits a very decided fund of conversational wit, which in "Lost and Found" is conspicuous by its absence...
...opinion as to the benefit or harm resulting from the influence of the elective system in his case, and to answer several more specific questions,--as to the number of courses taken to evade hard work; the effect of the system on strenuousness of application; the opinion of the writer regarding prescribed studies in schools and colleges, and what the studies thus prescribed should be. If the questions meet with general and intelligent response the result will, it is believed, be of great importance in the whole matter of American education...
...most interesting part of the number is the review of football at Harvard during the last ten years, which is illustrated by some very good pictures of well known players. An account of the political campaign at Harvard this year is contributed by W. T. Foster '01. An anonymous writer tells of "A Bloody Monday Night of Long Ago." Two short poems, a story, a short account of Roosevelt's life at Harvard and book reviews complete the contents...
...Genius of Stephen Crane" by G. H. Montague is another critical writing. Though in the main appreciating Crane's genius as a writer of vivid war stories, it attacks his work in general on the ground that skeptical realism held him down to too narrow limitations...