Word: background
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Element of Discord" which follows is decidedly an interesting and attractive story chiefly, we suppose, because it is flattering to our national pride. In addition to this it is well written and the background is cleverly drawn...
...afore mentioned good story is the "Tyrolean Incident" which was recently read and favorably criticized in English 12. It is certainly a very good sketch and an air of originality as given by the picturesque background of the Bavarian Tyrol. It is to be hoped that more work of the same class will be forthcoming for criticism is here a pleasure...
...natural results of a failure to adopt the intercollegiate regulations, and I see no escape from it. College education will add much to the efficiency of such instructors as have been mentioned. If they have good sense they will work through the students, keeping themselves in the background and letting the honor and glory go to those who have participated in the victory. Moreover the appointment of such specialists in athletics will necessarily make the duties of a Medical Director more desirable...
...plot is very simple - an ordinary love affair, - but it is worked out in exactly the right way. There is nothing unnatural in any of the conversations or situations, yet there is plenty of the unconventional and unexpected. The descriptions of the various Russian scenes which from the background of the story - morning in St. Petersburg, the drosky-driver, Russian tea, and the Imperial guard review - are perhaps the best part of the story, for they exhibit a keenness of observation and strength of diction which are not apparent in many Advocate stories. It it a picture of real human...
...background of the picture is laid on the Volga River the slight and bits of Eastem description which are thrown in here and there afford an excellent frame for the whole...