Word: characterize
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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It is of the early days of service that we are to hear tonight in the Union, of the days and months when still a young man, he experienced the tedium of the camp, the fatigue of the march, and the danger of the battlefield. It should provide a splendid...
"Mr. Sheldon has been well trained in the technical understanding and resource that can be taught-that are taught, indeed, at Harvard-and he has profited by his training. Admirable and surprising in the first act is his willingness to suggest his characters as they come and go, and not...
The prose story "A Woman There Was," is a study of a coquette, thoughtless but not all bad, and a sturdy unsophisticated rustic youth. The phases of feeling and the development of character are well set forth; but how could the young lady be "enclosed by her background," and what...
It is hard for me to adapt myself comfortably to the fact that the Advocate is no longer an organ of College opinion. Can it be that the internal economy of the University is so perfected that there are no continuing evils to assail, no grievances so lasting as to...
Critics say that his prose is below his poetry, which is perhaps true; but no one can blame him when the conditions under which he wrote are considered. His prose was written in defence of the very life and liberty of the English people at a time when everything was...