Word: wrote
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...send in only such an account as should cast no reproach on the gentleman referred to, or on the University. Surely, when these facts are understood, no one can longer blame the Harvard representatives of the Boston newspapers for their action in the matter, or for the accounts they wrote. A BOARDER AT RANDALL HALL...
...have in regard to the case of the young man who was referred to in yesterday's CRIMSON as having left College on account of ill health, yet I feel that, in justice to the correspondents of the Boston newspapers, I should make a slight explanation. The gentleman who wrote the communication yesterday was greatly mistaken when he thought the unfortunate student in question ate sufficient food. Among the waiters at Randall Hall it was often remarked that this student ate the least of any man in the Hall, and that means that his diet was absurdly light and insufficient...
...literary ideas may not have been original, and may even be, as Mr. Chapman believes, too fragile and ephemeral to endure; but Stevenson's character was unique, and the remembrance and the influence of it will be enduring. "Sick and well I have had a splendid life," he wrote, not long before his death...
What were the qualities of mind and of literary art which made Stevenson the leader in the romantic revival? "I loved the art of words and the appearances of life," he once wrote, and in this sentence is contained the answer to the question. He was peculiarly a word artist, a writer of surpassing skill in rhetorical effect. He "loved the 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...
...Vanity Fair" was Thackeray's first great success. In truthful depiction and now in satire he had succeeded; he was then to enter, as a novelist, the third stage of his literary development. "Fun is good, truth is better, and love is best of all" he once wrote, and he was about to take up that kind of writing which mirrors the moral ideals of the world, the law of which is love. If "Vanity Fair" was Thackeray's most powerful book, "Henry Esmond" was of all his works the best and noblest. Its charm does...