Word: artlessness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...kind of thing nowa-days; and the amateurish "Ballad of the Trent,'" has promising simplicity, and vigor of movement. Perhaps the most significant article, however, is that which urges a new course. The writer is of opinion that Harvard men do not write good short stories; and with the artless assumption, so characteristic of our present system, that no one can learn anything without taking a course in it, he urges that a special course in short stories be instituted here. If he had incidentally pointed out a single instance when such a special course, in any subject, anywhere...
...Homer,"--this being the third of the series of four lectures arranged by the Department of Classics. The lecture tonight will deal with the evidences of the Homeric poems having been the culmination of a long period of artistic development, rather than the simple and spontaneous expressions of an artless age, which they are ordinarly presumed to have been from the fact that they are the earliest example of Greek literature that has come down to the present time...