Word: writes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...appearances of men"; he had a keen zest for romantic adventure, a keen curiosity concerning the lives and characters of men, and, above all, a sensitive appreciation of the romantic in scenery and history. The one weakness in his work arose from the way in which he learned to write. It was his habit to attempt to copy as best he could the striking passages in whatever he chanced to read, and, while this practice gave him a great command of diction, it also tended to destroy the individuality of his work. He played the "diligent ape" too long...
There are also many qualities that the short story does not demand. To write one does not require a sustained imagination, nor broadness and sanity in point of view. We do not require that the short story writer should have a philosophy of life or be a particularly deep thinker. The novelist deals with a whole, but the short story writer with a fragment, a mere sketch...
...hoped that at least a thousand more men will sign them at once. Marshals and aides are requested to write the word "officer" against their names...
...Boston Lunatic Asylum, the Truant School, the Home for Incurables, and the State Reform School. Men who can do anything in the way of brightening the lives of these people are urged to call on Mr. Birtwell any Tuesday evening between 7 and 8 in Brooks House or write to M. Bloomfield '01, 35 1-2 Brattle street...
...meeting of the Junior Class last evening action was taken on the deaths of Frank Dickinson Bartlett, Herbert De Bray and Wade Carleton Belcher. A motion was passed to write letters to the parents of the deceased, to be signed by the officers and other members of the class...