Word: written
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...picturesque figure," Professor Palmer has written, "has left us, a prodigious scholar, a stimulating teacher, a heroic character, a playful and widely-loved friend." And at the close--"That elvish figure, with the unconventional dress and slouching step, that face which blended the infant and sage, that total personality, as amused, amusing and intent on righteousness as Socrates himself--happy the university that had for a long time so vitalizing a presence...
...persons may combine on the book of the play, and the music also must be composed by no more than two. In order to be eligible for election or for receiving a prize, the composed must have at least six musical numbers accepted. All manuscripts must be type-written and must be in the hands of F. H. Cabot, Jr., '17 by January...
Perhaps the most striking thing about the December Monthly is that every bit of it is well written. There is not one bad thing in the number, and the good things show a really surprising command of language. Yet there is nothing very notable in the collection, one receives the same impression that one so often gets from Harvard papers: here are a lot of clever young men who have read a good deal and know how to write; they are civilized, intelligent, sensitive, literary--but they haven't very much to say for themselves. The poets, particularly fail...
...prose is more interesting, but not much more startling, and it has the same curiously generalized character as the verse. The editorials and the reviews, of course, are topical, but most of the stories, if one cut out an occasional reference to ambulances or fox-trots, might have been written anywhere in the English-speaking world at any time since...
...feel that his irresponsible hero is an actual human, attractive, normal Harvard undergraduate, a trivial person, no doubt, but far more appealing than the disembodied soul who suffers through the story by Mr. Wright. Mr. Paulding has not made an important contribution to American fiction, but he has written easily the best thing in the Monthly, which leads one to hope that he will keep on writing college stories with the same delicate and playful touch...